4.From the Configure External Newsfeeds menu, choose Display External Newsfeeds.
The Administration utility displays the default external newsfeed configuration that applies to all newsfeeds (that is, the values for Send These Newsgroups and Do Not Send These Newsgroups).
The Display External Newsfeeds page also lists newsfeed hosts, including the dummy newsfeed (see Section : Adding an External Newsfeed), and the flags and parameters that have been set for each.
5.To return to the Configure External Newsfeed menu, use the navigation bar at the top of the screen.
Adding an External Newsfeed
The Modify External Newsfeeds form allows you to add a new external newsfeed and specify how incoming articles are to be handled by your news server. The specifications are stored in the /usr/ news/etc/newsfeeds file.
To add an external newsfeed, follow these steps:
1.From the Administration utility Main menu, choose Manage Components.
2.On the Manage Components menu, choose InterNetNews.
3.From the InterNetNews Administration menu, choose Configure External Newsfeeds.
4.From the Configure External Newsfeeds menu, choose Modify External Newsfeeds.
5.In the New External Newsfeed field, enter the fully qualified name of the server from which you want to receive news articles.
6.Click on Add. The Add External Newsfeed form is displayed.
The host name you specify in this field is also used for writing log entries and for determining if an article is to be forwarded to a site (assuming you have configured your news server to be an external newsfeed for another news server).
If you specify only a host name when you add a newsfeed, the Default for all Newsfeeds settings shown at the top of the Display External Newsfeeds page automatically apply (see Section : Displaying an External Newsfeed).
Leave the New External Newsfeed field blank when:
•You want to configure only your news server to receive input at this time and will specify a newsfeed server later. For example, you may not know the name of the external host or you may not have contacted the administrator to obtain an agreement to feed you.
You can change these settings at a later time by choosing INN Configuration Data from the InterNetNews Administration menu.
•You want to establish your news server as a local bulletin board, in which case you do not need to specify an external feed.
7.On the Add External Newsfeed form, specify the following information:
a.In the Excluded Hosts field, enter the fully qualified name of any hosts to which you explicitly do not want your server to send articles.
The Excluded Hosts field is optional and prevents the sending of articles to a specified site, if the name in the Excluded Hosts field matches a name in the article's path header.
As the article goes from server to server, each server prefixes its host name to the line. Usually a server uses its fully qualified domain name. Sometimes a server registers a name with the UUCP Mapping Project, which ensures that no two sites use the same name. In the example of the path header, there is a mixture of fully qualified domain names and names that are registered with the UUCP Mapping Project.
