Re: Is Leafnode still possible?

Ray Banana <rayban@raybanana.net> wrote at 12:44 this Sunday (GMT):

Thus spake Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com>
 

Last weekend I tried setting up a VM to provide cached Usenet articles using
Leafnode. I set it up to work with two servers: Eternal-September and the
paid service I use, Usenetnow. I have no problem logging into either
service on port 119 or 563 from my PC. I set up Leafnode to use the
standard unencrypted port 119 for compatibility reasons
in /etc/news/leafnode/config (using Debian 12). However, the result was
that Eternal-September refused to let me log in

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and the reason was that leafnode tried to download more than 50.000
articles from E-S, which got both your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
blacklisted in the firewall.

And that's why I have my slrnpull config set up to only download like 20
messages at a time :D
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