Malformed newsgroup control messages
Rajeev Lamba
Rajeev.Lamba at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 27 22:52:00 UTC 2004
Hi,
> Which version of INN are you running? Any recent version should be using
> controlchan, which will single-thread control message processing and
> shouldn't produce a load impact. It should be fine to just let
> controlchan deal with reading and throwing away these messages.
We are running INN 2.3.4
-R.
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Rajeev Lamba <Rajeev.Lamba at Sun.COM> writes:
>
>
>>We are seeing frequent control messages to non-existing french
>>newsgroups on our news server.Noticed newsgoups have some french
>>(special) character and from badcontrol.log is reported as "Malformed
>>newsgroup name".
>
>
>>Everytime we get few of these malformed newsgroups postings have noticed
>>Load avg. on news servers shoots up momentarily. What would be the best
>>method to block/restrict these control message postings ?
>
>
> Which version of INN are you running? Any recent version should be using
> controlchan, which will single-thread control message processing and
> shouldn't produce a load impact. It should be fine to just let
> controlchan deal with reading and throwing away these messages.
>
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