Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:08:30 -0700 From: Greg Wiley <greg@loop.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nntp proxy? (transparent) Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960826220830.0072f7f4@pop.loop.com>
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>act as an nntp (nnrp) server for the sake of users reading mail, >but get its articles from a different system... hopefully cacheing >these messages locally for the next request. > >I understand theirs a program called 'dnews' or something similar that >will do the job under NT, what about FreeBSD? We looked into dnews for the same purpose. It does work under FreeBSD. However, while the software supports what they call a "sucking feed", it does not support a true cache. The articles are indeed downloaded from the feeding server when they are needed but then they expire under one of the normal expiration plans. There is no "re-sucking" so to speak. That made dnews unusable for our purposes. I haven't seen the white paper but I recently noticed that Netscape advertises a news proxy service in their intranet solutions. Maybe they mean an article caching server. We are going to check that out. -greg
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