This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: test post
Article: 7508 of alt.hackers From: noddy@desire.apana.org.au (Reagan Blundell) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: test post Date: 11 Mar 1995 16:06:06 +1000 Organization: Desire -APANA-Brisbane- Lines: 26 Approved: You bet it is Message-ID: 3jreke$gen@desire.apana.org.au NNTP-Posting-Host: desire.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
root (root@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE) wrote: : ObHack: oh oh.. er.. Getting tin to work on my linux box. : It kept telling me to set.your.NNTPSERVER.variable, completely ignoring : whatever environment variables i set. Not having the patience to work out : why, i just appended a set.your.NNTPSERVER.variable with the appropiate : ip address to /etc/hosts, and bingo. : Well.. it's sort of a hack, anyway. Well it doesnt seem to have worked - it is now coming up with root@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE Obhack: Boss wanted a firewall/filter put in place - but also wanted legit users to be able to directly access the server from outside the local LAN. Solution - a telnetd replacement on the filter machine which takes a login and password, authenticates via tacacsd on the server and opens a line for their IP address to pass through the filter. Not entirely secure - but it keeps the boss happy and it works after a fashion (just hope they aren't coming in from a large multi-user machine) -- Reagan Blundell | "I Hope you know that noddy@desire.apana.org.au | this will go down on your APANA Brisbane Regional | Permanent Record" Management Committee | -- Violent Femmes
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