innd and rejects of dates

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Sep 27 10:43:04 UTC 2010


Russ Allbery writes ("Re: innd and rejects of dates"):
> Nothing.  Injection-Date should be signed when issuing control messages as
> well, but that gets tricky since the posting agent isn't supposed to
> provide one.  I suspect what that means is that control message processing
> software should impose a Date cutoff regardless of Injection-Date.

Control message processing software doesn't know the server's history
expiry date, or Date acceptance threshold, directly.  So that would
would be yet another knob to have set incorrectly ...

Ian.



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