If a match is found, INN assumes the machine is feeding news. For this reason, INN must know the IP address or resolvable symbolic name for the newsfeed servers in the hosts.nntp file. To configure the hosts.nntp file, enter the names of the newsfeed machine or machines. The file contains only the name or IP address, one newsfeed on a line. If you have several newsfeeds, each gets a line of its own.
Some systems use a password to log in for newsfeeds.
If you need to specify a password, it is included after the colon. Machines that are connecting to act as newsreaders are listed in the file nnrp.access, which is checked by nnrpd when it is spawned. The best way to verify the machine name is to use the finger command. Whatever name finger displays is the name that must be used in nnrp.access. For a client system to post news to INN, it must use the program inews.