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Re: Poorly setup news servers

From: reece () taz nceye net (Bryan Reece)
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:21:29 -0000

    Date:       Sun, 13 Oct 1996 06:33:23 +1300
    From:       Alan Brown <alan () manawatu gen nz>

   A few days ago I sent out a malformed checkgroups message to try and
   get a regional hierarchy (manawatu.*) off serevrs it shouldn't be on.

   It appears that a hell of a lot of people have checkgroups on autopilot
   and that the message resulted in quite a few broken news servers around
   the world.

INN 1.4unoff4 at least defaults to just mailing the checkgroups
message to the news admin, not even checking the groups first.  Not
sure about older versions.

Current thread:

Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Scriptors of DOOM (Oct 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Mark Graff (Oct 11)
  - Poorly setup news servers Alan Brown (Oct 12)
    - HPUX PPP Bug - bugger.ppl Aleph One (Oct 12)
    - Re: Poorly setup news servers Bryan Reece (Oct 12)
  - Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Avi Freedman (Oct 12)
- Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Charles M. Hannum (Oct 13)
- Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Casper Dik (Oct 14)
- Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Granville Moore (Oct 14)
- Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Vern Paxson (Oct 14)
- Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Jeff Weisberg (Oct 14)
  - Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Alan Cox (Oct 15)
  - Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Darren Reed (Oct 15)
  - ftpd bug? Was: bin/1805: Bug in ftpd James Poland 6-5251 (Oct 15)
- Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts Jeff Weisberg (Oct 14)

(Thread continues...)