From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 7 04:25:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F192E16A4CF for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 04:25:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 394C143D1F for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 04:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i27CP06C091682 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:25:00 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i27COxgG091681; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:24:59 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:24:59 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: DerAlSem Message-ID: <20040307122459.GD52694@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , DerAlSem , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <16217118.20040307102825@inbox.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jL2BoiuKMElzg3CS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16217118.20040307102825@inbox.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040304, clamav-milter version 0.67j cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nntp-server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 12:25:06 -0000 --jL2BoiuKMElzg3CS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:28:25AM +0300, DerAlSem wrote: > I want to run nntp-server, or rather i want two servers. Is there a > way to link them, as, for example, to IRC-servers can be linked? > In this way, what distributive should I use? That's not an easy question to answer without a great deal more information about your requirements, what levels of traffic you're expecting, how many news groups you intend to carry, how much money you're prepared to spend and so forth. I guess you want to set up (at minimum) a fail-over pair of servers. Conceptually the simplest way of doing that is just to have two independent NNTP servers which provide newsfeeds to each other, as well as taking feeds from your upstream sources. For news reading purposes, you can set up a DNS round-robin to distribute the clients over the two servers, or use some more sophisticated load balancing equipment (like, say Cisco Arrowpoint) which will automatically cope with failure of one of the servers. If you're going to be dealing with a full news feed, then you probably won't want to deal with (or be able to afford the disk space for) multiple news spools. In which case you'll be looking at some sort of storage array or NAS system for the spool, with various servers accessing it either for client reading, or to provide the site-to-site transport. Recommend you ask your question again on the freebsd-isp@ list (which is where you'll find people that run these sorts of system) and provide as much information about your requirements as possible. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --jL2BoiuKMElzg3CS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFASxSbdtESqEQa7a0RAjRSAKCUNFwM+loRBpKc5oMKrbnxLgWrmgCeKtOW QEpk7ON1On08px22vX5Vr0s= =l+0j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jL2BoiuKMElzg3CS--