Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:05:27 -0800 From: "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org> To: James <j@evilcode.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newsgroup server recommendation Message-ID: <3A3DC547.26326197@outel.org> References: <20001216102531.B44550@evilcode.com>
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We're using dnews for our news server. But I wouldn't recommend for if you're going to LOTS of readers or LOTS of feeds. We have a box running Diablo as the front end to dnews so it only has a single incoming and outgoing feed. We set this up before Diablo had reader capability, so I can't say first hand how good Diablo is as a general nntp package, but I'd assume its pretty good. dnews would be fine in a small to medium environment. I don't know about INN. I've been out of touch with it for ages. If you're trying to do a large server with binary groups you're in trouble! I've been having over 180gig a day coming in lately. The disk subsystem on the Diablo box needs to be upgraded. It can't keep up with the 5+ meg bytes a second it needs to read/write. If you don't carry the binaries then you've dropped 90% of the system/bandwidth requirements. Consider a satellite feed. It'll save you a LOT of bandwidth! James wrote: > > I'm about to be setting up an NNTP server, and I need to > decide what software to use for this. I was wondering > if I could get some people's opinions/experiences with > the various servers available in the ports collection. > > Thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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