From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 26 15:07:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19779 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patty.loop.net (patty.loop.net [204.179.169.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19772 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mlcoh.loop.com (mlcoh.loop.com [204.179.169.6]) by patty.loop.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA23457 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:04:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960826220830.0072f7f4@pop.loop.com> X-Sender: greg@pop.loop.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:08:30 -0700 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Greg Wiley Subject: Re: nntp proxy? (transparent) Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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