Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:27:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News Server Message-ID: <40704598.4070304@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040404125111.GA74222@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20040404125111.GA74222@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Can someone recommend what they are running and why they chose it. > I am particularly looking for one that doesn't suck alot ;-) > I hear they all suck, no? Well, I run INN and I can recommend it, although one needs to spend the time to review the documentation to get a handle on what is a large system with lots of components. INN is well-suited for having multiple inbound and outbound newsfeeds and dealing with lots of newsgroups. If you're only interested in a single feed for a few newsgroups (less than a thousand, say) than something like leafnode may be easier to get going and better suited to that situation. Be aware that even a partial news feed (say big-7 minus *.binaries) represents a lot of traffic and a lot of bandwidth: make sure your feeders support "poisoning" newsgroups you don't want or else you can easily saturate a T1. A full feed probably saturates a 10Mbs link, nowadays, so you'd want at least a T3... -- -Chuck
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