Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 14:31:00 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <csu96154@cse.iitd.ernet.in>, freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hosting an NNTP server Message-ID: <p05100301b71d921e827f@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105081647500.1732-100000@deskar.cse.iitd.ernet.in> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105081647500.1732-100000@deskar.cse.iitd.ernet.in>
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At 4:53 PM +0530 5/8/01, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Basically, I want to do something like the NNTP servers on the Net do (get > news feeds from the Net and let people access them), but I have no idea on > what to do or where to start or how things work ... Maybe a link to how > NNTP servers do their job might help ? First thing you should do is read the books _Managing USENET_ by Henry Spencer & David Lawrence (published in 1998 by O'Reilly & Assoc., but no longer in print, see <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/musenet/>; for more information), and _Managing UUCP & USENET_ by Grace Todino & Tim O'Reilly (published in 1992 by O'Reilly & Assoc., but also no longer in print, see <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/muucp/>; for more information). I would encourage you to check out used book stores, online auctions, etc... to find copies of these books. Searching amazon.com, I also find the books _USENET News and Inn_ by Randall L. Else, Trent R. Hein (but not to be published until 2002), _The Usenet Book : Finding, Using, and Surviving Newsgroups on the Internet_ by Bryan Pfaffenberger (published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley), and _Administering Usenet News Servers : A Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Building, and Managing Internet and Intranet News Services_ by Jim McDermott, James E. McDermott, John Phillips (published in 1997 by Addison-Wesley). Unfortunately, all of these books are pretty old (except the one by Else & Hein which hasn't been published yet), and may be less applicable to the modern world. If you can buy only one of these books, I'd suggest _Managing USENET_ by Spencer & Lawrence, since it will likely be the book that was the most useful when it was published (these guys have been materially involved in helping to set the USENET news standards for many years, and are quite authoritative on the material they do cover), and it will probably be the one that has been reduced in value the least since it was published. If you want to learn more about INN (a particular USENET news server), I would suggest starting at <http://www.isc.org/products/INN/>. If you want to learn about Diablo (probably one of the most popular alternatives to INN and other news server software, and one that is most closely linked to FreeBSD), I would suggest starting at <http://www.openusenet.org/>, which also includes links to the important RFCs to read, etc.... If you want to read about other USENET news servers, start at <http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Usenet/>; (a page I used to maintain). Virtually everything else you could want to learn about USENET from online sources will be linked to from the pages underneath <http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/>. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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