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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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