From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 8 5:42:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4BC37B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 05:42:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f48Cfn125953; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:41:49 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <15095.58155.785819.365229@guru.mired.org> References: <15095.58155.785819.365229@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 14:41:40 +0200 To: Mike Meyer , Rakhesh Sasidharan From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Hosting an NNTP server Cc: freebsd-chat Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 7:14 AM -0500 5/8/01, Mike Meyer wrote: > While it's possible to get news to your server with the same > mechanism, it sounds like you're planning to get all the news, or > close to that. For that, you're better off getting a feed. That's a > push mechanism, as the feeding server decides which articles to offer > you. You should check with your ISP to see if they offer that service. When contemplating getting a feed, keep in mind that many sites (who may be willing to offer you feeds) may require that you have a fixed IP address that they can enter into the configuration of their server. Indeed, some servers effectively require fixed IP addresses (Diablo certainly doesn't work well when the remote IP address keeps changing). See for the best centralized listing of servers that might be willing to offer you a feed. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* 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