ietf-nntp Re: MODE READER (revisited)
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Fri Mar 14 10:23:46 PST 2003
Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
>
> > Having reread 5.2.2 of base-17 and read the previous MODE READER
> > threads, how is a single process which can do both peer-to-peer and
> > reader connections, supposed to determine which is which?
>
> Probably the best way is to use port 433 for transit connections and 119
> for reader connections. That's what I do, and that makes everything very
> straightforward.
Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be common practice (yet), so
getting an ISP to do this might be difficult.
> Finally, you don't have to do what INN does and separate the
> implementations; you can implement the entire protocol in a single daemon
Which is what I have done.
> and then just either accept or not accept the peer and the reader commands
> based on whatever authentication mechanism that you're using.
Hence the question :) Thanks for the input.
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