a small issue wth nnrpd

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On May 9, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Bill Tangren wrote:

> Jeffrey M.Vinocur wrote:
>> On May 4, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Bill Tangren wrote:
>>> auth outside {
>>>         key: outside_the_firewall
>>>         require_ssl: true
>>>         auth: "ckpasswd -s"
>>> }
>>>
>>> access ALL {
>>>         key: outside_the_firewall
>>>         newsgroups: *,!junk,!control,!control.*,!usno.aa.test
>>> }
>>>
>>> access failure {
>>>         newsgroups: !*
>>> }
>>
>>
>> Is that your entire readers.conf, or did you omit portions?
>
> No, that's it. I have a separate readers.con (that is used by a second
> nnrpd daemon) that handles port 119 traffic behind the firewall.

Huh, there goes my best guess.

Wait, are you testing this with a newsreader that's smart enough to 
cache a copy of the group list?

I just tried to reproduce the behavior you described and couldn't 
(tested using telnet).

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org