G'day folks,
Sorry if this has been asked before but has anybody seen any NNTP proxying
software?
At the moment, our users only have Navigator (so only a few "trusted" folks
can read news). But, we will shortly be upgrading to Communicator (in all its
glory) because of another project. There is a genuine need for limited news
access but we don't want to run a full blown server (we've been down the INN
road once before and found the read-level vs. download traffic wasn't worth
it). We also face the problem that we already link to two remote servers (our
ISP and Checkpoint) and will shortly be adding at least two more.
What I'm concerned about is that I don't seem to have any way of filtering the
news that's then made available. I'd really like to be able to slot in a
program which channels NNTP requests between the client and the remote server,
dropping pre-configured groups as it spots them in the outgoing command. A
problem I see is that NNTP doesn't provide a mechanism to indicate the server
to contact (but then, it doesn't need to).
If the worst happens, I'm quite prepared to sit down and write something. But,
I'm not sure how I can pick up the intended destination. FW-1 isn't really
suited to slotting in plug-ins (except its own security servers) - PLEASE
correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes, I know about DejaNews - but at least if people do the "wrong" thing (as
defined by our Usage Policy) there, my proxy logs will show it (all web
traffic is forced through a local proxy server) and I can hand that information
over to the responsible manager. Besides, not all of the servers we want
access to have gateways through DejaNews (not the least of which is
Checkpoint).
Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Ciao.
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