Jan van Rensburg wrote:
> i'm looking for a small, easy-to-configure, low maintanance nntp server that
> can be used for internal discussion lists (on linux). the server, however,
> must support authentication. as far as i can gather from articles & RFCs the
> AUTHINFO command is still in draft. can anyone verify this? i see that some
> popular news readers like outlook express & netscape communicator does
> support authentication. have they implemented the draft, or is there another
> authentication command that i missed?
Jan,
Yes, the Netscape Messenger authinfo support is known to interoperate with
NNTP servers claiming to implement the draft. We use it ourselves in that
mode.
Re. the choice of NNTP server, I think you could consider running INN --
even though it *can* be rather resource intensive, it *need* not be. We
have a client running twenty or so internal newsgroups (on FreeBSD, but
Linux would also be fine) for fifty or so users on a 90Mhz / 32 MB / 2 GB
machine -- and the machine is simultaneously supporting quite a few other
functions (an HTTP server, a small DBMS, SSH, Samba, and more) while
delivering good NNTP response time. Maintenance, once INN is configured,
is zero.
Richard
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