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| NNTP-Ext 3.4.1 NNTP-Posting-Host |
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This line is added to the header of a posted article by the
server. The contents of the header is either the IP address
or the fully qualified domain name of the client host posting
the article. The fully qualified domain name should be
determined by doing a reverse lookup in the DNS on the IP
address of the client. If the client article contains this line,
it is removed by the server before acceptance of the article
by the Usenet transport system.
This header provides some idea of the actual host posting
the article as opposed to information in the Sender or From
lines that may be present in the article. This is not a
fool-proof methodology since reverse lookups in the DNS
are vulnerable to certain types of spoofing, but such
discussions are outside the scope of this document.
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| [Source:"draft-ietf-nntp-imp-02.txt"] [Last Changed:March 1998] [Copyright: 1998 S. Barber] |

