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Appendix D Configuration Files
Following the client group is an access directive. The access directive is of the form access=value.The
allowed access values are
allow, deny, basic, generic, and custom. Depending on the access
directive, you can further specify an authenticator program, users, and passwords, as in the following
examples:
ip=127.0.0.1 access=”generic” authenticator=”homebrew” user=”joe”
hostname=myhost.com access=”basic” user=”joe” pass=”bob”
The following table lists the access directive options:
The following is an example of custom access:
ip=127.0.0.1 access=”custom” authenticator=”hb” user=required pass=required
nntp_servers.config
The nntp_servers.config file configures:
• The Traffic Server’s parent NNTP servers
• The news groups you want the Traffic Server to observe
• The type of NNTP activity you want the Traffic Server to do; for example, caching news articles on
demand, posting news articles, receiving news feeds
• The network interface the Traffic Server uses to contact the parent NNTP server
Format
Each line in the nntp_servers.config file must have the following format:
hostname group-wildmat priority interface
The hostname and group-wildmat tags are required; priority and interface are optional. The
following table describes allowed values:
If access is ... authenticator is ... user is ... pass is ...
allow not required not required not required
deny not required not required not required
basic not required required optional
generic optional not required not required
custom required optional; but the only
allowed entry is the string
‘required’ (see example)
optional; but the only
allowed entry is the string
‘required’ (see example)
IMPORTANT After you modify the
nntp_servers.config file, Traffic Manager has to reread the
configuration files. Run the
traffic_line -x command. If you are running a cluster,
you need only run the command for one node; the changes will propagate.
Tag Description
hostname Enter one of the following:
• hostname
• hostname:port
• IP address
• IP address:port
• .block