Old articles

Nigel Reed

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Jan 19, 2024, 7:21:18 PM1/19/24

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it looks like someone ejaculated a bunch of old articles. Was it just
me getting these or everyone else?

Not really complaining, I'm happy to take old articles, but just
wondered if this was someone's config error.

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Ivo Gandolfo

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Jan 19, 2024, 7:41:02 PM1/19/24

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On 20/01/2024 01:21, Nigel Reed wrote:
> it looks like someone ejaculated a bunch of old articles. Was it just
> me getting these or everyone else?
>
> Not really complaining, I'm happy to take old articles, but just
> wondered if this was someone's config error.
>

I just receive this: <01cf36e8$Blat.v3.2.0$c03e52fa$3e7c90...@127.0.0.1>

And on the path: I see this

Path:
paganini.bofh.team!newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com!news.corradoroberto.it!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!!news.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!spool1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!injection-bsd1!not-for-mail

It's the newsserver corradoroberto.it grepping history from
blueworldhosting (I think with pullnews), and inject to his newsserver,
without filtering in newsfeeds file, and resend him to all his peers
(you included)

Sincerely

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Nigel Reed

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Jan 19, 2024, 7:42:20 PM1/19/24

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Thanks for the investigation. We were all noobs once I guess..some of
us still are lol.

Roberto CORRADO

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Jan 20, 2024, 12:34:06 AM1/20/24

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"Nigel Reed" wrote:

> Not really complaining, I'm happy to take old articles, but just
> wondered if this was someone's config error.

I'm sorry, that was my config mistake but i made already amends
closing the exitind feed.

"""
$ /usr/inn/ctlinnd reload newsfeeds "old article inject temporaney block"
Ok
$ date
fri 19 gen 2024, 17:08:43, CET
"""

https://i.ibb.co/7CrG9NF/Immagine.png

-Roberto.

yamo'

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Jan 20, 2024, 3:48:43 AM1/20/24

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Hi,

Ivo Gandolfo a tapoté :

>
> Path:
> paganini.bofh.team!newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com!news.corradoroberto.it!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!!news.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!spool1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!injection-bsd1!not-for-mail
>
> It's the newsserver corradoroberto.it grepping history from
> blueworldhosting (I think with pullnews), and inject to his newsserver,
> without filtering in newsfeeds file, and resend him to all his peers
> (you included)

Thanks Ivo,

So by security I reject withs newsfeeds : "injection-bsd1".

It explain the TooOld that I received from paganini.bofh.team :

<http://pasdenom.info/usenet/news-notice.2024.01.19-06.15.03.html#inn_unwanted>

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Jesse Rehmer

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Jan 20, 2024, 11:52:56 AM1/20/24

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The administrator of news.corradoroberto.it was using suck, pulling from my
server and those articles made their way back out through other peers of
news.corradoroberto.it who accepted the old articles. The injection-bsd1 node
is only in a handful of articles on my server, so it likely won't do you much
good to filter based on that.

News administrators should have a proper article cutoff set on the servers
which they peer with others. If only the administrator of
news.corradoroberto.it made the mistake originally it would not have leaked
beyond.

yamo'

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Jan 21, 2024, 3:30:13 AM1/21/24

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Hi,
[FU2 news.software.nntp]
Jesse Rehmer a tapoté :

>
> The administrator of news.corradoroberto.it was using suck, pulling from my
> server and those articles made their way back out through other peers of
> news.corradoroberto.it who accepted the old articles. The injection-bsd1 node
> is only in a handful of articles on my server, so it likely won't do you much
> good to filter based on that.

Yes, nothing found in innreport today!

>
> News administrators should have a proper article cutoff set on the servers
> which they peer with others. If only the administrator of
> news.corradoroberto.it made the mistake originally it would not have leaked
> beyond.

Yes good advice but sometimes the newsmaster has to modify "artcutoff"
in inn.conf and forget changing it after...

Maybe reporting the value of "artcutoff" in log and INNReport
would be a nice thing.

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Stéphane
Sorry for my bad English

Roberto CORRADO

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Jan 21, 2024, 4:00:24 AM1/21/24

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yamo' wrote:

> Yes good advice but sometimes the newsmaster has to modify "artcutoff"
> in inn.conf and forget changing it after...

Yes, that's true, I modified it.

> Maybe reporting the value of "artcutoff" in log and INNReport
> would be a nice thing.

Thank you for the advice, i will take in consideration

-Roberto