From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 10:28:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2962E16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C4343D48 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040404172805.EYRX2677.out005.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:28:05 -0500 Message-ID: <40704598.4070304@mac.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:27:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington References: <20040404125111.GA74222@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040404125111.GA74222@ns2.wananchi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:28:04 -0500 cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:28:06 -0000 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