There is a wildcard entry for all names. I cannot set the canonical name
since it will change depending on the dialup connection. I want world read
access!
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Alan Brown wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > deborah:/a/home/clameter$ grep -v "^#" /etc/nntpcache/nntpcache.access
> > localhost <http> read,quick
> > localhost * read,post,filter spam.filter
> > * linux.* read
> > * comp.os.linux.* read
> > * fuller.dialogue read
> > *.fuller.edu * read,post
> >
> > But when I start a newsreader from remote I get the following message:
> >
> > dx66:~$ rtin
> > rtin pre-1.4 release 981002 ("Phobia") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-98 Iain Lea.
> > Connecting to deborah.fuller.edu...
> > access denied <chris@p60.sas16.dialup.lax1.flash.net>, you do not have
> > connect permissions in the nntpcache.access file.
>
> When you connect to your news server by name, the connecting IP is
> seen as the ethernet port, not localhost (actually seen as the
> "nearest" network IP the machine has to the destination address)
>
> Add the machine's canonical name to the read permissions or set the
> nntp server to be localhost and things will work.
>
> AB
>
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