Neews to accomodate multiple news servers from uu.net

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, The Doctor wrote:

> 1)
> 
> At Verizon, news is received via NNTP on the host <custID>.inbound.news.uu.net.
> 
> Is INN STABLE capable of this?

Yes.  Configure your innfeed.conf to feed news to that host.

And configure your newsfeeds with the H3 flag as they describe.


> We have a number of systems providing NNTP feeds to customers. Your
> server(s)/firewall(s) must be configured to allow ICMP and NNTP access to
> port 119 on your server from all of our servers including: nntp-out1.uu.net
> thru nntp-out15.uu.net, each of which expands to approximately 17 servers.

You should be listing those 15 hostnames in incoming.conf, which will take 
care of your issue regarding 256 IP addresses -- INN will resolve each of 
the 15 hostnames to 17 IP addresses and keep track of them all for you.

 
> 2)
> 
> Nov  5 14:30:21 sosrv10.sac1.maint.ops.us.uu.net newslink[28774]: [ID 702911
> +news.notice] ns2.nk.ca:/prod/news/dqueue/Huca516916!.S00539 connect: 502 You
> +have no permission to talk.  Goodbye.
>
> Supposed this is fixed.
 
This means you don't have their hosts listed in incoming.conf as above.


> 3)
> 
> You should be using "news.uu.net".
> 
> Name:    news.uu.net

> Addresses:  198.6.0.5, 198.6.0.6, 198.6.0.12, 198.6.0.13
>                                                             
> 
> end of 3)
> 
> Now you know why I say supposedly.

I don't know what part of the config you're talking about here.

 
> 4)
> 
> For outbound (posting) you should use <customerID>.inbound.news.uu.net as in
> "!@#$%^&*(.inbound.news.uu.net". Thjis is better than using thje generic term
> +"news.uu.net".
> 
> For receiving feeds please allow Port 119 connections from any server in the IP
> +Netblock
> 198.6.0.0/24. All Verizon Business news servers are in this IP netlbock.    

As I mentioned above, if you include the hostnames they mention, you will 
get those IP addresses without needing to list them all manually.


> Point:  This is the first time I have seen this model.
> Has anyone else had to deal with this?
> 
> Can INN be up to the job to do this??

This is a pretty common model (although usually on a slightly smaller 
scale) and INN can deal with it easily.  I'm not sure why you're having so 
much confusion -- can you point out exactly what parts you're having 
trouble with?


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org