On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Soumava Das wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I am trying to set up a small intranet using Red Hat Linux 6.2. But, I
> am facing some problems:
>
> 1. I want to set to a news server (using INND) which must be able to
> accept news feed and post messages. There may be some private
> newsgroups (i.e. for the intranet users only). We will be connecting to the
> 'net thru VSNL dial-up service. So, restricting the no. of newsgroups available
> is essential. Any pointers to HOW-TOs, etc. will be appreciated.
No HOWTOs, just the 9 part INN FAQ, the INN man pages and the README
files. INN says that if there is a man page missing for some feature it's
a bug. Also you need to read up the comments in all the configuration
files of INN. If you need to set up INN with traditional cache system
you'll need to edit about 6 files. The README tells you which. This is
pretty straight forward. For CNFS cache you'll need to edit about 6 more
files. Youll need to get active and newsgroups files from upstream server
with 'getlist'. 'nntpget' is good to fetch news if you want to fetch all
news from upstream servers, else it is best to make an assortment of
sucknewsrc files (using -p option) and fetching news using 'suck' (this
will fetch news from different servers and from different groups on same
servers simultaneously). INN does not have fetching programs optimised for
dialup accounts, you'll have to use 'suck'. Also you'll have to use
nntpsend to send news. There is a sample crontab file which you'll
probably have to install by `crontab -u news -e`. It's best to work under
the 'news' username after giving it a regular password. Configuring INN is
a highly complex issue and you'll have to spend a few days on it, but it's
highly rewarding if you get it right (and it looks good on a resume).
> 2. We are planning to use multiple dial-up connections using modems. Is
> there any way to do so without using any fancy hardware ? A single server
> will act as the Internet gateway for the intranet. It should be able to route the
> traffic so that there is load balancing.
You'll probably need your own domain name for this. I'm not sure of the
load balancing software available but configuring static routing and
ipchains properly should do the trick.
> 3. We are using Squid to set up a proxy server. It seems to be working.
> But, I am facing a problem. The proxy server is not caching the web pages
> which are hosted on a external server (e.g. the pages of www.yahoo.com or
> www.slashdot.org). However, it is properly caching the pages hosted on the
> server in the intranet. Any suggestions will be helpful.
You have to go through the /etc/squid.conf file very carefully and
configure it. Squid normally does not come preconfigured for security
reasons.
Best wishes,
Indraneel
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