There's a NNTP proxy called dnntpd that allows you to group together one or
more real news servers into a single "virtual" news server that appears to
the clients to be carrying the aggregate newsgroups among all the real
servers.
Looks like it can be found at ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/misc/dnntpd/, but I don't
know how current that version is. It's UNIX open source only.
If you don't have UNIX available, there's another package called DNEWS that
can do more or less the same thing on NT/95 and/or UNIX platforms, but it's
a commercial product. Any Tucows site should have the eval version for
download.
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From: Daniel Baldoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NNTP proxying
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:20:53 +0800 (WST)
To: Firewall-1 mailing-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Firewalls mailing-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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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