Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:04:17 -0400 From: "Philip R. Moyer" <pmoyer@hyperon.com> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news server Message-ID: <200006202204.PAA29814@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:18:24 EDT." <p04320401b5758fc213b7@[192.168.1.2]>
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Rick wrote: >I am going to ask a very basic question. Where to the news servers at >ISP get all the news groups from. Do they download them into there >machines? > >I am looking for a very basic answer. News hubs have "peers" with which they exchange news articles. This peering relationship is (at least, was when I was still doing sysadmin work a few years ago) arranged on a per-site basis. When I was at Purdue, we used to exchange mail with, I believe University of Illinois. Our server would download and upload new messages to our "upstream" hub, and then we would do the same for our "downstream" feeds. To answer your question, the ISPs download the news from their upstream feeds. Na zdarovye, Phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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