From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 16:30:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A452637B84E for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrestc@workhorse.iMach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12662; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:24:25 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:24:24 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Brad Knowles Cc: Christian Jachmann , Carroll Kong , "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Off-topic News: WAS: Re: 3.4-Stable crashes..(heavy diskio+networking) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess it's been longer than I had realized since we switched from local news to outsourcing. (Believe me I've been happy to NOT have that nightmare) On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > In fact, there are some things that Diablo can do that even > Cyclone/bCandid can't, and there are major news sites that may run > Cyclone on their news peers (they don't want to drop too far out of > the Top Ten), but they prefer Diablo and that is what is on their > news spool & news reader servers. When I last evaluated these, diablo was (I believe) either not capable of supporting readers or something else threw it out of the running.... Then again, that was before we switched from the Slow Solaris Boxes.... > INN can be pretty cranky, if you don't have it configured just right. Amen. Has there been any progress made on a decent news CACHE software? I'd love to try something the likes of nntpcache, but hopefully something that works better than nntpcache did a couple of years ago. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message