At 04:27 PM 6/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I actually have two questions.
>
>1) is there a way to change the default port for Dnews from 119?
Yes, stop dnews, then in dnews.conf set
port 9119
or whatever port you want to use.
>2)Hey I'm playing around with Dnews for the first time and I think I have
>things working
>pretty well. The only problem I'm having is that the server isn't pulling
>from all
>of my sources. I have defined nttp_feeder News1.xx.xx and Suck2
>news2.xx.xx and
>suck2 news3.xx.xx with the
>
>Pull true
>
>variable set. The issues is that when I'm pulling lots of content from my
>provider,
>it's all going through one server. In my test I'm only caching one list
>and I THOUGHT
>that Dnews would know to pull from all three sources simultaneously. Is
>that not
>the case?
>
>If not how should I expect the multi-suck thing to work? Will it speed up
>multiple
>requests for multiple groups?
You'd better send your entire dnews.conf and tellnews status output, it
should pull
data from all 3 at once in theory.
ChrisP.