From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 27 17:32:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA05459 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:32:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05438 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA26121 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id GAA24584; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 06:15:13 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199701271945.GAA24584@al.imforei.apana.org.au> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 06:15:13 +1030 From: pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs) To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NNTP news access - available off site X-Mailer: Mutt 0.49-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <5argtn$m3p$1@al.imforei.apana.org.au> you wrote: : I've been asked by a small ISP to reccommend a supplier of nntp : access/news server access. They don't want to invest in a news : server right now - the ISP has about 200 total customers, and about : 20 people interested in News. They can't justify a full newsfeed, : but want to offer the 20 people access to a news server on the : net. : Any reccommendations? What's the best news server software for : FreeBSD? (In case I can't find them a site that will allow : reader access.) Hmm.. i'd suggest running something like nntpcache that allows you to then have like a web-cache type arrangement for nntp traffic. When your clients have requested/read an article via this "cache" software, which pretends its a normal newsserver, it is cached and expired etc. The amount of bandwidth utilized for this arrangement is *tonnes* less than even a partial news feed. The only disadvantage is that you then can't provide active feeds to sites. Also there is a leafnode news package which is sort of similar. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.apana.org.au for public PGP key Proposed Additions to the PDP-11 Instruction Set: EROS Erase Read Only Storage HCF Halt and Catch Fire -- stolen from a fortunes file