Hi ReK2,
> BTW I always keep forgetting to mention that the video you did related
> to adding peers to INN 2.x is amazing and have helped me a lot,
> Will be nice of you touch other topics are well, this is good for people
> like me starting to administering inn servers
Many thanks for the feedback! I'm glad to know this video was helpful.
I had begun (and almost finished) two other videos but did not motivate
myself for the remaining 20% to do as I did not know whether they would
really be useful for people.
It was a comparison of the 4 storage overview methods and
recommendations for choosing, and a summary of what's new in INN 2.7.1
(with a focus on the new features and highlights in improved
documentation like algorithms for ckpasswd, what pathcluster/pathalias
are for, etc.). Now that I know it can be helpful for news admins, I'll
try to reprioritize them.
> maybe one since we on this topic related to sending control messages
> to manage groups, there are still pieces that I am a bit confused,
> like for example I did the control msg and was able to send it with
> rnews and seems other admins got it and they are replicating now.
It could indeed be an interesting topic, though very few people send
control messages for hierarchy administration... I would probably do
the other way first (how to set up the initial list of newsgroups, their
descriptions, and keep them in sync with control messages or a master
list with actsync).
I naturally also had in mind other widely asked topics to clarify with
basic samples: how to parameterize readers.conf, expire.ctl, TLS
certificates, NoCeM, anti-abuse filters, Cancel-Lock... I bet all of
these topics would be useful to cover.
> But do I need to do something else?
What remains to do is to communicate about your hierarchy and have other
news admins create it on their news severs... That's a long process.
Having a good distribution of a new hierarchy requires some time.
Basically, you're sending signed control articles but nobody still has
updated their control.ctl file and installed your public key on their
news servers, or manually created your newsgroups.
> how to add/remove etc etc
signcontrol can generate the corresponding newgroup/rmgroup control
articles, and you just send them the same way you recently sent your
checkgroups control article.
Other news admins just do not process these control articles
(hispagatos.* is not in their control.ctl file).
> ohh and most important do I need to send it to somewhere I see that
> there is a ftp with a list of all the herarchies not just big-8
> how do they create that list? do I need to tell them? etc...
I suggest reading "5. About the
ftp.isc.org Newsgroup Lists" of the FAQ:
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/usenet-hier.html
There's a mail address to contact.
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Julien ÉLIE
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