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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 1999 06:26:01 -0500
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
To:        "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   How to secure local nntp server?
Message-ID:  <199911091124.GAA79768@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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I recently switched from Dnews to Leafnode++ for my home nntp server (exactly 2 days ago).

Today I got a note from someone telling me that my news server had been Hijacked.
I inmediately did a "deny log any to any 119" and removed leafnode from inetd.
Sure enough I saw in the logs minutes later a computer trying to connect to my news server.

How can I secure my news server?
I can't think of what rules to use with IPFW.

Basically I want the server to be able to connect to external news servers, but only want my internal 
network to be able to read from it.




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