As Bev and the forward from Diane have stated, this is a pretty wide
open topic...It heavily depends on what kind of news server you really
want to run.
I've configured full feed news servers for clients in the past, and
we're preparing a news server appliance line for large ISPs, as well as
a news caching addition to our caches which we'll target to smaller ISPs
who outsource their news, and I can say that if you're just wanting a
local news server that carries a few of your favorite groups (and maybe
some local groups for company-wide dicussions) that's easy. Just put
innd, or dnews onto a box with about 80GB+ of space and set up a 'suck
feed' (or NewsCache, if bandwidth matters) of those favorite groups.
innd is more difficult then dnews, but it has become a very good
performer in recent months and works very well for most needs. Then
again dnews isn't very expensive, and the support people /are/ very
responsive (better than I can say for the bCandid/Software.com/whoever
is the owner of the month, for the Typhoon news server, which I have the
misfortune to maintain for a client).
If you want a full feed...Let me just ask: Are you sure? Taking a full
news feed is incredibly expensive. That's why so many ISPs outsource
it. You'll need, as mentioned, about a TB of storage to keep a
reasonable retention (unless you don't take a lot of the binary groups).
And you'll need some form of transport for all that news. I usually
recommend Cidera's satellite news feed if it's available in your area.
I can get you in contact with someone at Cidera who can help you out, if
you'd like. I'm not real sure of the pricing but I think it's somewhere
around $400/month for a nearly full news feed (they do some spam
filtering, and over-standards-large binary pruning before pumping it out
over satellite). Whatever they are charging these days is significantly
less than the bandwidth you'd eat by fetching it over your normal
landlines (you'd need more bandwidth than most people have--just for news).
http://www.isc.org is innd's home.
http://www.netwinsite.com is where you'll find dnews.
Good luck!
Ben Kennish wrote:
> I suppose that this is a bit off topic but as we're all friends on this
> list, I'm sure noone will mind just a quickie :-)
>
> Whats the best way to go about creating a news server? You see, we want
> to set up a news server like ISPs have (e.g. news.demon.co.uk) where you
> download lists of newsgroups and send/receive messages.
>
> A quick scan through linuxdocs.org resulted in zip.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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