From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Dec 16 17: 5: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 17:04:58 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807C737B400 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1890 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:03:50 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jun-25) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:03:49 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: James Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsgroup server recommendation In-Reply-To: <20001216102531.B44550@evilcode.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, 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. You need to consider which groups you'll have and how long you'll retain them. Then consider how large your input and output feeds are, pick a news transport package, and size the machine for it. If you want binaries, consider buying a news service. If you want lots of groups, consider using one of the satellite feeds or many peers. I've usually used inn and there's a port and package. There may be better things for huge feeds or light weight, but inn is well known and has plenty of features. Last time we needed to build a largish (for then) server, we used a PPro 200, a pair of what has become the TekRam DC-390F UWSCSI adapters, six or so 4.5-9GB Viking II drives, and CCD to combine disks to span disks for the news filesystems. We also used async fileio for news filesystems and a very stable FreeBSD kernel. Worked well saturating most of a pair of T1s. 8{( News servers can get huge as the usenet feeds are huge nowaways. It's a long way from when I carried an almost full feed via a shared 2400b modem on a Tandy 6000 running BNews. Hope this helps - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message