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John F. Morse | 4 Aug 2012 23:24

Changes in inpaths mail

I emailed this to Sameh but have not heard back from him yet.

Recently I have noticed a change in the format of the daily inpaths e-mail 
messages from all of my servers.

These are the copies that are mailed to myself, and I have no reason to 
believe the copies that are e-mailed to anthologeek are any different.

Prior to July 17, the first half of the messages used a FQDN for the news 
server as shown in these few example lines from July 16:

4351 newsgate.cistron.nl
1 news.bcc.de
7694 feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl
21470 lightspeed.eweka.nl
2140 feed118.news.tele.dk
2 nntp.totallyobjects.com
79 textnews.euro.net
10 tor
30 news.nnrp.de
304 jeffrey.matabio.net
21 ntnu.no
125 news2.open-news-network.org
21 f14.n5026
16704 border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com
978 82.197.223.108.MISMATCH
509 nntp.newsgroupbanter.com
97 f111.n5000
109 news.ncu.edu.tw
29 f94.n463

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Julien ÉLIE | 11 Aug 2012 00:07

Re: Changes in inpaths mail

Hi John,

> Prior to July 17, the first half of the messages used a FQDN for the
> news server as shown in these few example lines from July 16:
>
> 4351 newsgate.cistron.nl
> 304 jeffrey.matabio.net
[...]
>
> Starting with the July 17th inpaths e-mail reports, the news servers now
> have what appears to be an encrypted name, like the following:
>
> 1 4no10958447pbo.1
> 1 u3no2499556qai.0
[...]

I do not see such a change in my inpaths reports.
FQDN are human-readable.

feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl 2 jeffrey.matabio.net 1 border-1.ams.xsnews.nl 
2 jussieu.fr 2 news.skynet.be 12 tjb 12 nnrp3-2.free.fr
[...]

I do not see any encrypted names.

> The only oddity involved is on July 17 I did have a hardware failure on
> a BIND9 DNS server that had an uptime of six years (Debian Sarge).
>
> I changed /etc/resolv.conf in all INN servers (Debian Squeeze) to point
> to a newer BIND9 box and everything seemed to be working fine (e.g. I'm

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