Neews to accomodate multiple news servers from uu.net

[The Doctor]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:40:29PM +0100, Miroslaw Luc wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, The Doctor wrote:
> 
> > Question:
> > >From uu.net, I need to permit
> > newsXXXX.news.uu.net
> > with 198.6.0.o/24 .
> > What do I need to do to get this correct for incoming.comf?
> 
> You need 254(6?) entries in your incoming.conf file.
> Or do some magic in your firewall or nameserver setup.
> 
> You can configure iptables/SNAT, ipfilter/map, pf/nat etc to map
> all of 198.6.0.0/24 source addresses to 1 address that your news server
> will accept. It needs a firewall / NAT box *before* your server.

I am not into this method.

> 
> You can also use some BIND's features. See BIND's `view' statement.
> In incoming.conf:
> peer uunet {
>         hostname: newsXXXX.news.uu.net.FAKE
> }
> In named.conf:
> view uunet_for_doctor_inn {
>   match-clients { IP-address_doctor_newsserver; };
>   zone "newsXXXX.news.uu.net.FAKE" {
>      type master;
>      file "zone-file";
>      ...
>   };
> };
> In zone-file:
> [... SOA and NS records ...]
> $GENERATE 1-254 @ A 198.6.0.$
> 
> And so on.
> I never tested such config but I think it could be working:)
>

Or what about picking the record up from uu.net?
 
> -Mirek
> 
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