From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 18 0: 3:20 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 00:03:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [209.210.251.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5332B37B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:03:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from outel.org (gatekeeper.calweb.com [209.210.251.61]) by mail.calweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA96729; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:03:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A3DC547.26326197@outel.org> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:05:27 -0800 From: "Joel M. Baldwin" Organization: Calweb Internet Services Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newsgroup server recommendation References: <20001216102531.B44550@evilcode.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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