From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 08:56:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from BITS.bris.ac.uk (root@bits.bris.ac.uk [137.222.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12976 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:56:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk) Received: from BITS.bris.ac.uk (stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk [137.222.64.1]) by BITS.bris.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18204 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:56:37 GMT Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:56:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Morgan To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newsgroups In-Reply-To: <199802152322.PAA18160@train.tgci.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > Would it be possible to setup a private newsgroup independent of > Usenet? This is currently possible with most news setups. You simply deny the service (or port) from the outside world. > What I have in mind is an inhouse news server with forums > that are accessible by password only, hopefully both inside and > outside of a firewall. This is a little trickier (AFAIK) - news was originally for public access. > Would innd and nnrpd be all that I need? I've *no* experience with > news and am aware that setting up a full newsserver is not a trivial > task. Hopefully what I'm thinking of would not require the > tuning and planning a commercial feed would. A solution that I've found is to use a proxy called "nntpcache" (www.nntpcache.org). This doesn't ask for a password, but will restrict newsgroup access to certain users. This also has the advantage of being able to 'pull-in' outside feeds as and when needed. > Any comments and information on what and where to find it would be > great. > > Thanks, > > Riley > Stewart ------- - Systems-Representative & Joint Systems Administrator BITS - Bristol Information Technology Society University of Bristol Student's Union, Bristol, England E-Mail: stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk WWW : http://www.BITS.bris.ac.uk/stewart/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message