[21451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hold on to your news servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sun Nov 15 10:33:35 1998
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 08:42:52 -0600
From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
Cc: jamie@ais.net, Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>,
Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>, jgarzik@pobox.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981115012941.16406@shell.nacs.net>; from Steven J. Sobol on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 01:29:41AM -0500
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 01:29:41AM -0500, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 10:58:16PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
>
> > Second, precisely how are you going to figure out where the clean-news system
> > is getting its feeds from, given that it does not emit any messages that it
> > receives, and thus, you have no means to trace those feeds?
>
> Wait. Are you just talking about issuing cancels *locally* on *your* news
> server? If so, I doubt that any of us have anything at all to complain about.
>
> If not, then, as we know, the typical way to issue a cancel is to send out
> a control message. Am I missing something here?
Yes.
The only messages this server will emit will be cancels, and it will emit
them only to those who DELIBERATELY peer with it.
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