Re: INN configuration
Tim Kellers said the following on 2009-07-25 15:53: Michel Talon wrote: Tim Kellers said: -Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly? Yes, no problem. Have you read the Inn install doc in /usr/local/share/doc/inn/INSTALL This is a step by step guide to the *long* configuration. Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). You also need to edit the active file to add newsgroups. Thanks, I think my problem may be my not having other software to grab the news from an upstream news server. I'll take a look at newsx. The configuration is long for sure, but I've been through it so many times in the past few days that I think I'm getting better at it. :-) I'll report my success/failures as soon as I can get back on it. Tim Some information http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: INN configuration
Bernt Hansson wrote: Tim Kellers said the following on 2009-07-25 15:53: Michel Talon wrote: Tim Kellers said: -Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly? Yes, no problem. Have you read the Inn install doc in /usr/local/share/doc/inn/INSTALL This is a step by step guide to the *long* configuration. Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). You also need to edit the active file to add newsgroups. Thanks, I think my problem may be my not having other software to grab the news from an upstream news server. I'll take a look at newsx. The configuration is long for sure, but I've been through it so many times in the past few days that I think I'm getting better at it. :-) I'll report my success/failures as soon as I can get back on it. Tim Some information http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thanks for that information. I've added news.software.nntp to my newsgroup and active files. I don't know if I spent so much time reading the doc's that I couldn't see the forest for the newsfeeds, but until Michel Talon wrote: Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). I was chasing my tail trying to get the server to pul in articles. I think that should stand out in the docs, somewhere, but I never did see it, or if I did see it, I didn't understand what it was saying. Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: INN configuration
Michel Talon wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:12:43PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: Looks like newsx was the solution I was looking for. So far, it is pulling the articles from my active groups from my upstream provider. I assume from the docs I have to run rnews -U after this immense pull has completed. I don't run rnews at all, as far as i remember. A thing you need to do is to run (news.daily is a script in ~news/bin). news.daily expireover lowmark each day (with crontab) to expire old news. After that inn runs perfectly regularly for years, and you don't fear problems like with leafnode. I was going to crom something like: newsx -d --maxnew 200 acme news.acme.net rnews -U -v but I'll definitely have a look at the news.daily script, too. Thanks Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: INN configuration
Tim Kellers said: -Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly? Yes, no problem. Have you read the Inn install doc in /usr/local/share/doc/inn/INSTALL This is a step by step guide to the *long* configuration. Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). You also need to edit the active file to add newsgroups. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: INN configuration
Michel Talon wrote: Tim Kellers said: -Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly? Yes, no problem. Have you read the Inn install doc in /usr/local/share/doc/inn/INSTALL This is a step by step guide to the *long* configuration. Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). You also need to edit the active file to add newsgroups. Thanks, I think my problem may be my not having other software to grab the news from an upstream news server. I'll take a look at newsx. The configuration is long for sure, but I've been through it so many times in the past few days that I think I'm getting better at it. :-) I'll report my success/failures as soon as I can get back on it. Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: INN configuration
Tim Kellers wrote: Michel Talon wrote: Tim Kellers said: -Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly? Yes, no problem. Have you read the Inn install doc in /usr/local/share/doc/inn/INSTALL This is a step by step guide to the *long* configuration. Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). You also need to edit the active file to add newsgroups. Thanks, I think my problem may be my not having other software to grab the news from an upstream news server. I'll take a look at newsx. The configuration is long for sure, but I've been through it so many times in the past few days that I think I'm getting better at it. :-) I'll report my success/failures as soon as I can get back on it. Tim Looks like newsx was the solution I was looking for. So far, it is pulling the articles from my active groups from my upstream provider. I assume from the docs I have to run rnews -U after this immense pull has completed. Thanks for all the help Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: INN configuration
Le Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:11:47 -0400,
Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com a écrit :
My server has a static IP (optonline.net) that has no ports
blocked. From my laptop client I can connect to news.optonline.net
and grab a full feed of all the newsgroups. What I'm trying to do is
setup my own news server using news.optonline.net as a peer. The
error I get from my client when I connect to my local news server is:
No newsgroups found even though I have the full list of newsgroups
from isc.org installed.
How? You should perform a ctlinnd newgroup with each group to add, or
use a checkgroup message.
Your server should reply the newsgroups list to a command list
baby-jane:~$ telnet news.davenulle.org 119
Trying 91.121.44.19...
Connected to news.davenulle.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 news.davenulle.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.3 ready (no
posting).
list
215 Newsgroups in form group high low flags.
{.list.}
.
I haven't been able to find a how-to on the internet (The
FreeBSDDiary has a workable how-to that only addresses a local news
server) and the instructions listed on the isc-inn site don't seem to
address my issue.
/var/log/messages show no errors that relate to inn*
INN logs are in /var/log/news, you may have to set syslog.conf (I don't
remember)
Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly?
Sure, works fine here. It's hard to say what problem you have without
precision. Note: with INN, *always* use the news account when you
work on it.
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Re: INN configuration
Tim Kellers wrote:
I've spent couple of days getting /usr/ports/news/inn set up on a
dedicated server and most of the local features are working. I've
loaded the newsgroups and the active files from
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG, restarted the server and set up an
upstream peer collect articles.
But my client claims I have no newsgroups installed. Does anyone have a
hint on further configuration or can someone point me to a resource that
might clarify the steps to proper configuration?
I've no experience on configuring a news server, but perhaps it would
help if you could share your existing config that you believe works.
Perhaps your client is on a network that forbids direct access to port
NNTP. If your client is on a different network than the one you are
serving off of, perhaps port NNTP is being blocked or otherwise filtered.
${networks} sometimes filter/rate limit/block outright ports that they
*claim* to be overloading their network [0], but no proof has yet been
supplied. Some ${networks} say that specific ports/protocols that may be
used for illegal file sharing are to blame. [1].
Start by stating the *exact* error message your client is getting... if
you can extract such a thing from (him|her), then provide anything you
can find in your NNTP server logfile(s).
Steve
[0]: http://tinyurl.com/l8lo9z
[1]: personally, I use uTorrent frequently to download/re-upload FreeBSD
releases, whitepapers, books and other legitimate content. If I was
throttled because I'm using a certain protocol to perform legitimate
tasks, I'd be PISSED
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Re: INN configuration
Thanks for the reply.
My server has a static IP (optonline.net) that has no ports blocked.
From my laptop client I can connect to news.optonline.net and grab a
full feed of all the newsgroups. What I'm trying to do is setup my own
news server using news.optonline.net as a peer. The error I get from my
client when I connect to my local news server is: No newsgroups found
even though I have the full list of newsgroups from isc.org installed.
I haven't been able to find a how-to on the internet (The FreeBSDDiary
has a workable how-to that only addresses a local news server) and the
instructions listed on the isc-inn site don't seem to address my issue.
/var/log/messages show no errors that relate to inn*
Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly?
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Tim Kellers wrote:
I've spent couple of days getting /usr/ports/news/inn set up on a
dedicated server and most of the local features are working. I've
loaded the newsgroups and the active files from
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG, restarted the server and set up an
upstream peer collect articles.
But my client claims I have no newsgroups installed. Does anyone have a
hint on further configuration or can someone point me to a resource that
might clarify the steps to proper configuration?
I've no experience on configuring a news server, but perhaps it would
help if you could share your existing config that you believe works.
Perhaps your client is on a network that forbids direct access to port
NNTP. If your client is on a different network than the one you are
serving off of, perhaps port NNTP is being blocked or otherwise filtered.
${networks} sometimes filter/rate limit/block outright ports that they
*claim* to be overloading their network [0], but no proof has yet been
supplied. Some ${networks} say that specific ports/protocols that may be
used for illegal file sharing are to blame. [1].
Start by stating the *exact* error message your client is getting... if
you can extract such a thing from (him|her), then provide anything you
can find in your NNTP server logfile(s).
Steve
[0]: http://tinyurl.com/l8lo9z
[1]: personally, I use uTorrent frequently to download/re-upload FreeBSD
releases, whitepapers, books and other legitimate content. If I was
throttled because I'm using a certain protocol to perform legitimate
tasks, I'd be PISSED
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