Ubuntu Manpage: incoming.conf - Configuration of incoming news feeds

NAME

       incoming.conf - Configuration of incoming news feeds

DESCRIPTION

The file pathetc/incoming.conf consists of three types of entries: key/value, peer and group. Comments
are from the hash character "#" to the end of the line. Blank lines are ignored. All key/value entries
within each type must not be duplicated. Key/value entries are a keyword immediately followed by a
colon, at least one blank and a value. For example:

max-connections: 10

A legal key does not contains blanks, colons, nor "#". There are three different types of values:
integers, booleans, and strings. Integers are as to be expected. A boolean value is either "true" or
"false" (case is significant). A string value is any other sequence of characters. If the string needs
to contain whitespace, then it must be quoted with double quotes.

Peer entries look like:

peer <name> {
# body
}

The word "peer" is required. <name> is a label for this peer. It is any string valid as a key. The
body of a peer entry contains some number of key/value entries.

Group entries look like:

group <name> {
# body
}

The word "group" is required. <name> is any string valid as a key. The body of a group entry contains
any number of the three types of entries. So key/value pairs can be defined inside a group, and peers
can be nested inside a group, and other groups can be nested inside a group. Key/value entries that are
defined outside of all peer and group entries are said to be at global scope. Global key/value entries
act as defaults for peers. When innd looks for a specific value in a peer entry (for example, the
maximum number of connections to allow), if the value is not defined in the peer entry, then the
enclosing groups are examined for the entry (starting at the closest enclosing group). If there are no
enclosing groups, or the enclosing groups don't define the key/value, then the value at global scope is
used. A small example could be:

# Global value applied to all peers that have no value of their own.
max-connections: 5

# A peer definition.
peer uunet {
hostname: usenet1.uu.net
}

peer vixie {
hostname: gw.home.vix.com
max-connections: 10 # Override global value.
}

# A group of two peers which can open more connections than normal.
group fast-sites {
max-connections: 15

# Another peer. The max-connections: value from the
# fast-sites group scope is used.
peer data.ramona.vix.com {
hostname: data.ramona.vix.com
}

peer bb.home.vix.com {
hostname: bb.home.vix.com
max-connections: 20 # He can really cook.
}
}

Given the above configuration file, the defined peers would have the following values for the max-
connections key.

uunet 5
vixie 10
data.ramona.vix.com 15
bb.home.vix.com 20

PARAMETERS

The following keys are allowed:

comment
This key requires a string value. Reserved for future use. The default is an empty string.

email
This key requires a string value. Reserved for future use. The default is an empty string.

hold-time
This key requires a positive integer value. It defines the hold time before closing, if the
connection is over max-connections. A value of zero specifies immediate close. The default is 0.

hostname
This key requires a string value. It is a list of hostnames separated by a comma. A hostname is
either a fully qualified domain name that resolves to the IPv4 or IPv6 address of the peer, or the
dotted-quad IP address of the peer for IPv4, or the colon-separated IP address of the peer for IPv6.
If this key is not present in a peer block, the hostname defaults to the label of the peer.

identd
This key requires a string value. It is used if you wish to require a peer's user name retrieved
through identd match the specified string. Note that currently innd does not implement any timeout
in identd callbacks, so enabling this option may cause innd to hang if the remote peer does not
respond to ident callbacks in a reasonable timeframe. The default is an empty string, that is to say
no identd.

ignore
This key requires a boolean value. Setting this entry causes innd to refuse every article sent via
CHECK or IHAVE by this peer. The default is false.

max-connections
This key requires a positive integer value. It defines the maximum number of connections allowed. A
value of zero specifies an unlimited number of maximum connections ("unlimited" or "none" can be used
as synonyms). The default is 0.

nolist
This key requires a boolean value. It defines whether a peer is allowed to issue list command. The
default is false, that is to say it can.

noresendid
This key requires a boolean value. It defines whether innd should send 438 (response to CHECK, in
streaming mode) or 435 (response to IHAVE in non-streaming mode) responses instead of 431 (response
to CHECK) or 436 (response to IHAVE) if a message is offered that is already received from another
peer. The deferral feature can be useful for peers that resend messages right away, as innfeed does.
The default is false: the deferral feature is used so that the peer receives 431 and 436 codes, and
therefore resends the article later.

password
This key requires a string value. It is used if you wish to require a peer to supply a password via
AUTHINFO USER/PASS. The default is an empty string, that it to say no password.

patterns
This key requires a string value. It is a list of newsfeeds(5)-style list of newsgroups which are to
be accepted from this host. The default is the string "*", that is to say all groups are accepted.

skip
This key requires a boolean value. Setting this entry causes this peer to be skipped. The default
is false.

streaming
This key requires a boolean value. It defines whether streaming commands (CHECK and TAKETHIS) are
allowed from this peer. The default is true.

HISTORY

       Written by Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org> for InterNetNews.  Converted to POD by Julien Elie.

       $Id: incoming.conf.pod 10179 2017-09-18 20:13:48Z iulius $

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