HC-NA-How-TO #1, posting through closed servers

[SocksFan]

The latest version of HipCrime's NewsAgent (v1.05) is SOCKSified,
and this has some interesting side effects.  Besides the obvious
stuff, like keeping the NArunner's IP address out of the stoopid
NNTP-Posting-Host header and letting those with blocked port 119
continue running, HC's NA v1.05 is also capable of posting thru
servers that are apparently closed.  Sound impossible?  Well, it
ain't.  Take, for example:

   nnrp4-w.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.182]

This is a supposedly read-only server, and if you connect to it
from any old IP address, an attempt to post goes like this:

   201 Welcome to the SBC Open Server! (Typhoon v1.2.3)
   post
   440 Posting Not Allowed
                     
Yep, herald code 201, meaning "no posting" and a POST command
get a error code 440.  This is indeed read-only.

Now that's a PacBell.NET machine, so let's look around and find
a SOCKS4 proxy around there.  This one looks good:

   adsl-64-172-88-157.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.172.88.157]

Connect through the SOCKS to the NNRP server, and the same post
session looks like this:

   200 Welcome to the SBC Open Server! (Typhoon v1.2.3)
   post
   340 Send Article to be Posted
            .
            .
   240 Article Posted

Amazing, that puppy's open now (200 = posting enabled).  This same 
approach will work for many servers, particularly those ISPs which 
deliver this broadband ADSL stuff.  USWest, NetCom, @HOME, Wanadoo, 
Chello, and others have fast, well-connected news servers which'll
"validate" users on the basis of origination from a "friendly" IP 
address.

Find an open SOCKS4 proxy within their domain, and you can post.

A few other examples of SOCKS-next-to-NNTP combinations:

   wanadoo.fr [] (closed NNTP)
   ca-ol-sqy-11-197.abo.wanadoo.fr [213.56.234.197] (open SOCKS)



Obviously, that's got to change, but for now, it gives everybody
a methodolgy for posting lots of untraceable articles.  Enjoy!
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