INN commit: trunk/doc/pod (news.pod)

[Russ Allbery]

INN Commit <Russ_Allbery at isc.org> writes:

>     Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008 @ 10:29:11
>   Author: iulius
> Revision: 8147
>
> First upgrade note for INN 2.5:  nnrpd now cannot bind to any port.
>
> Modified:
>   trunk/doc/pod/news.pod
>
> ----------+
>  news.pod |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> Modified: news.pod
> ===================================================================
> --- news.pod	2008-10-25 17:15:31 UTC (rev 8146)
> +++ news.pod	2008-10-25 17:29:11 UTC (rev 8147)
> @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
> +=head1 Upgrading from 2.4 to 2.5
> +
> +The following upgrade process is still under construction and not complete.
> +
> +=over 2
> +
> +=item *
> +
> +By default, innbind(8) refuses to bind to any port under 1024 other
> +than 119, 433 and 563 for security reasons.  In order to run B<innd> or
> +B<nnrpd> on a different port under 1024, you will have to use the
> +B<--with-innd-port> configure option if there is only one supplementary
> +port to use.  Otherwise, you can use inetd(8), xinetd(8), or some
> +equivalent, to achieve your need.

While innbind is new in 2.5, this restriction was previously implemented
by inndstart, so I don't think it's really new.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>