The replicate setting causes DNews to assign article numbers matching those of the upstream server. This allows you to trasnparently move users to a backup server in the event of failure, and allow them not to have to reset their clients.
Any posts made to the backup server must first be sent to the primary system to have article numbering assigned. This makes it less reliable than maintaining two independent servers with their own numbering, and why we don't recommend it.
Using DNS you could connect to either the primary or backup server depending on your location. The backup will lag behind slightly, but the difference would only be minutes, so that wouldn't be significant when moving between sites. This would only be useful if you are moving systems between locations. If you have your own system in both locations, the only way to do what you require would be to somehow mirror your client information across sites in addition to replicating the article numbers.
An example replicating configuration is here -
http://netwinsite.com/dnews/feedsout.htm#replicate
Use of this setting does limit your ability to take multiple feeds. The master would need to become the exclusive feed source. The backup can still send feeds to other sites.
- Roydon L.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roydon, tnx for the answer. The moment I pushed the send button, I realised my mistake. But then again...you gave in your answer the possibility to set 'replicate' to true, but also warn that this is not recommandable. Can you explain why??
This could be the answer we're looking for.
Netwin Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Information on read messages is stored by the client.
If you are moving computers from one location to another regularly, what you are doing could be managed with firwall rules and replication of ar
ticle numbers (using 'replicate true' which isn't a recommended setting).
Otherwise no, this can't be done with NNTP. You might consider a Web to News gateway which stores user information such as WebNews (Free for use with DNews), or a variety of PHP, Perl, and Python based options out there.
Alternatively you could try using IMAP to access messages gatewayed to e-mail via the DNews 'tomail' feature.
- Roydon L.
