readers.conf

[Reinfried O. PETER]

Dear Jeffrey,
> 
>> I have a very simple readers.conf, that is working well in most
>> cases, but it doesn't work for abusers, which I want to block.
> 
> I don't think an auth block that doesn't assign an identity works the 
> way you think it does.  You should either (1) have the "abusers" block 
> contain "default: <ABUSERS>" and then include an access block at the 
> end to trap them, or (2) modify your "all" block to have "hosts: 
> *,!80.109.202.196".
> 
> If you choose (1), you might like the reject_with parameter in recent 
> versions of INN.
> 
> 

Thank you very much, the following readers.conf is working:

auth all {
    hosts: "*"
    default: <LOCAL>
}

access full {
    newsgroups: "*, !junk,!control,!control.*"
    access: RPAN
}

auth "abusers" {
    hosts: "[some IPs and domains]"
    default: <ABUSERS>
}
access "abusers" {
    users: <ABUSERS>
    newsgroups: "!*"
    reject_with: "your host or domain is not allowed here ..."
}

Regards
-pro-


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