incoming.conf(5)
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 the host's fully qualified
domain name, 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 9589 2013-12-19 17:47:33Z iulius $
SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), uwildmat(3).
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