[NNTP] Re: NNTP working group status

Andrew - Supernews andrew at supernews.net
Wed Nov 10 04:29:28 PST 2004


>>>>> "Francois" == Francois Petillon <fantec at proxad.net> writes:

 Francois> I do not know if Diablo may be a good example here. Reader
 Francois> side receive a feed from specified IPs. From these IPs, you
 Francois> can not access to mode reader and you are only allowed to
 Francois> feed the server : there is no way to switch from one mode
 Francois> to the other (and in fact, I have never see any complaints
 Francois> about it).

You're not reading the code closely enough, I think.

While it's even less typical in a Diablo environment for a single IP to
have both reader and (header-only) feeder access, it is possible. The
only effect of MODE READER is to disable the feeder commands (and thus
is never actually necessary).

I can't think of any case other than running both the spool and the
reader on the same host where this would ever be an issue, though.

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Andrew, Supernews
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