problem with mailpost and inews
Bill Tangren
bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Fri Sep 2 13:36:38 UTC 2005
Jeffrey M.Vinocur wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Bill Tangren wrote:
>
>
>>auth inside {
>> hosts: "localhost, *.usno.navy.mil, usno.navy.mil, 10.1.5."
>> default: "<AADEPT>"
>>}
>>
>>access ALL {
>> newsgroups: *,!junk,!control,!control.*,!usno.aa.test
>>}
>>
>>The hosts line is the problem. Right now, anyone in the listed domains
>>can post to the newsgroups using a newsgroup *client*, but mailpost
>>won't work. If I change hosts to
>>
>>hosts: "*"
>>
>>then mailpost works, but then anyone can post to these groups, which is
>>unacceptable.
>
>
> I'm not sure why changing that line to * fixes things, but I wonder if
> your actual problem is a missing entry in incoming.conf.
This is what is in incoming.conf (the same on both servers):
streaming: true # streaming allowed by default
max-connections: 8 # per feed
peer ME {
hostname: "localhost, 127.0.0.1"
}
>
> (Also, that "10.1.5." in the hosts line probably should be "10.1.5.*",
> FYI.)
>
Well I'll be ... This fixed it. I tried
hosts: "localhost"
and it didn't work, but adding this asterisk fixed it?
Well, at this point I don't care why it works, only that it does.
Thank you for your help.
Bill Tangren
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