From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 1 18:42:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C14C1065676 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:42:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530A18FC17 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22828 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2009 18:42:20 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Oct 2009 18:42:20 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id ABB6C508BE; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:42:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Aflatoon Aflatooni References: <832963.74091.qm@web56208.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <991123400910010704x7952ae73h13e1ce68d07a2773@mail.gmail.com> <44eipnurrr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <570307.51852.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:42:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <570307.51852.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (Aflatoon Aflatooni's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:17:25 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <44ab0bez1x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usenet configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:42:21 -0000 Don't top-post, please. Aflatoon Aflatooni writes: > What is needed in order to run nntp? How does nntp connect to other news servers? Where do you define the news groups that the server would subscribe to? > Any pointers or suggested configuration? NNTP is the protocol, not the software. Aflatoon Aflatooni writes: > From: Lowell Gilbert > To: Aflatoon Aflatooni ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 10:12:56 AM > Subject: Re: usenet configuration > > Odhiambo Washington writes: > >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: >> >>> Can someone point me to what software I need to install in order to provide >>> a usenet service for internal users? >> >> >> >> cd /usr/ports >> make search key=usenet > > Or better yet, "nntp". By which I meant "make search key=nntp" > I think cnews is still the standard server software, but there are a > bunch of alternatives that might be easier for a small installation. So install one and look at its documentation. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/