Thanks for all the advice Joe and Bev.
I'm using dnews but I'm a little confused as to this 'suck feed'
business. We don't have an ISP news server so I fail to see how I can
set the nttp_feeder variable.
Thanks,
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Ben Kennish
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Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> 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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> >
> > Ben K
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