[leafnode-list] Re: Disabling The "Is Valid FQDN" Check

[Matthias Andree]

Am 10.05.2011 14:43, schrieb Adam Funk:
> On 2011-05-09, Matthias Andree wrote:
>
>> I wonder if I should make leafnode 2 default to "post only to one
>> server" (like leafnode 1 did), i. e. clear a message from the queue as
>> soon as one server has accepted it.
>>
>> On the other hand, I've also had news servers just blackhole posted
>> messages, and posting a message somewhere else is a good workaround, as
>> long as all upstream news servers play by the rules and keep Message-IDs
>> intact. Duplicate suppression is an intrinsic feature of Usenet, so for
>> all compliant servers this is safe.  In fact leafnode-2 only clears
>> to-be-posted articles from the "out.going" queue when any one server
>> responds that the article is a dupe, for postings to unmoderated groups.
>
> I prefer the way leafnode2 works now: post only once for moderated
> groups, but repeat until successful for unmoderated groups.
>
> One suggestion --- if you think it's practical: when building the
> groupinfo list, if leafnode gets different flags for the same group
> from different upstream servers, I'd like 'm' to have priority over
> 'y'.  (AIUI from previous discussions, the local flag for a group is
> more or less randomly picked from the upstream flags.)
>
>
>>>> Please report all servers that overwrite or modify Message-IDs to me so
>>>> that I can prevent leafnode from posting to these servers.
>>>
>>> I haven't heard about this until now --- is it a common problem?
>>
>> Unfortunately, depending on software installation, yes, newsd is one
>> example.  Leafnode 2 blacklists several software installations for
>> posting by pretending that the server's response had been "201 Posting
>> not allowed" when it got 200 in fact.
>
> Is that hard-coded in the source code somewhere?

Yes, it is. I don't want script kiddies to wreak havoc in Usenet, so I 
don't make that configurable (you can already set "nopost = 1" in 
leafnode 1 and feedtype = none in leafnode 2).

-- 
Matthias Andree