From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 15:58:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB2E1065692 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:58:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0D18FC14 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9018580514; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:58:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:58:22 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: yOIG+4MarTTmolMOnB87m8XAzqlh78Gd1oLJVFJGGnb3 1254585502 Received: from olympe.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 124A91BE81; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:58:22 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes From: Jeffrey Goldberg In-Reply-To: <4AC5AA13.7000406@bah.homeip.net> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:58:20 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <702B5735-BCA6-4D5F-BA99-BF75C9A49225@goldmark.org> References: <832963.74091.qm@web56208.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <991123400910010704x7952ae73h13e1ce68d07a2773@mail.gmail.com> <44eipnurrr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <570307.51852.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <4AC5AA13.7000406@bah.homeip.net> To: Bernt Hansson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1076) Cc: Aflatoon Aflatooni , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: usenet configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:58:23 -0000 On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Aflatoon Aflatooni said the following on 2009-10-01 19:17: >> What is needed in order to run nntp? > > INN https://www.isc.org/software/inn > A faq for INN is at http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html > > Diablo gttp://www.openusenet.org/diablo > A faq for diablo is at the above address. > > DNews http://www.netwinsite.com/dnews.htm > > Typhoon (not free/open) http://www.highwinds-software.com/ And if the needs are small, one might be able to get away with just running leafnode. Leafnode is *not* a full NNTP server, but for small networks with limited needs, it might be sufficient. I'm not familiar at all with Typhoon and Diablo. The last time I used DNews (a very very long time ago) it had some really nice design features that made it appropriate for situations between what one would use leafnode and INN, but it was buggy (this was a long time ago, those bugs have probably been fixed). INN, of course, is the sendmail, of Usenet servers. Cheers, -j