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Date:      Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:45:07 -0600
From:      Troy Kittrell <troyk@basspro.com>
To:        Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: News Server reccomendations
Message-ID:  <38739F43.CC0BE04@basspro.com>
References:  <FNEMIHIFMKFBMDBKFDPBGEIMCAAA.troy@picus.com>

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Hmmm...have you looked at/tested DNews on FreeBSD? The only caveat would be that
ldapauth doesn't seem to be directly supported on FreeBSD.

Troy Settle wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> The company I'm working for is currently using D-News on NT for usenet.  I'm
> a total newbie to the NNTP game, but am under the impression that Dnews
> isn't a very good solution for an ISP with 20k users.
>
> I think I want to reccomend something like Typhoon, and I need to get some
> hardware reccomendations, like single or dual CPU system?  how much memory?
> what kind of storage subsystem?
>
> I'm thinking a dual cpu box with as much RAM as it will take, and 100+ gig
> of RAID or Appliance would be the way to get this started, but I need
> validation on this.
>
> Another option might be to use MFS, and not have any fixed disks in the
> machine itself, and use a network applicance for the spool.
>
> Thoughts and opinions?
>
> -Troy
>
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