From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 19:36:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001BA37B4C5 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 19:36:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eA83ZjW52774; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:35:45 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Tancsa To: gte345e@prism.gatech.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nntp server Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 22:35:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Nov 2000 10:11:56 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to find a scaleable news server software, that will run on = BSD. Is=20 >there a good free product or links that you can provide? Have a look in /usr/ports/news. For non free, I have found DNEWS to be a decent value. I bought a copy a couple of years ago (back in the inn = 1.7.x days, and it was far more reliable and scalable back then compared to = innd. No idea if innd has caught up, but the DNEWS of today (native 4.x port) gives great performance on FreeBSD and manages a couple of nearly full feeds (20Mb/s incoming) on about 300Gig of storage space for me. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message