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Subject: 
Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Thu, 2 Oct 2003 05:48:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > Due to a recent distributed denial of service attack, we have
> > shut down NNTP service on port 119 to prevent further
> > service interruptions.  Alternate ports 1119, 8000, and 8080
> > are still available.

> I would consider Emailing everyone registered with Lugnet and
> explaining the situation and providing guidance how to go about
> fixing their news reader so thay can start posting again.

Additionally (assuming that port 119 is permanently turned off) it
would be a good idea to change "Setting up a newsreader" in
http://news.lugnet.com/news/
to de-emphasize port 119 and possibly provide links for how to use
a non-default nntp port in various newsreaders (it required some
Googling for me to figure out how to configure Pine).

TWS Garrison



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  Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
 
(...) If the problem has gone away, is it possible to re-enable the port? I don't seem to be able to use the alternate ports, probably because of my organisation's firewall. Kerry (23 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
 
(...) Todd, I would consider Emailing everyone registered with Lugnet and explaining the situation and providing guidance how to go about fixing their news reader so thay can start posting again. -Orion (23 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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