[3439] in bugtraq
Re: Poorly setup news servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Reece)
Sat Oct 12 23:31:55 1996
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:21:29 -0000
Reply-To: Bryan Reece <reece@taz.nceye.net>
From: Bryan Reece <reece@taz.nceye.net>
X-To: alan@manawatu.gen.nz
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.961013062157.729P-100000@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz>
(message from Alan Brown on Sun, 13 Oct 1996 06:33:23 +1300)
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.
