From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 11:44: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.basspro.com (mail.basspro.com [12.14.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CB91543A for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:43:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troyk@basspro.com) Received: from basspro.com (netgate.basspro.com [12.14.224.160]) by mail.basspro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA58335; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:46:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from troyk@basspro.com) Message-ID: <38739F43.CC0BE04@basspro.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:45:07 -0600 From: Troy Kittrell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Troy Settle Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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