INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread Scott Kindley
OK heres a question. Ive read the documentation on setting up INN from redhat and the how to stuff from LDP. Both of those talk about feeds from an upstream provider. It said you would need a copy of some file from this provider. Cant remember the name of the file off hand. Seems this is where

Re: INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Scott Kindley wrote: It said you would need a copy of some file from this provider. Cant Yes, the newsgroups file. :) If you are not connecting to an upstream, you create this file yourself. It's a plaintext file. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread Scott Kindley
William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Scott Kindley wrote: It said you would need a copy of some file from this provider. Cant Yes, the newsgroups file. :) If you are not connecting to an upstream, you create this file yourself. It's a plaintext file. -- William,Never have

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Q: news servers It really seems to have ballooned. A year ago a full feed was only 4GB per day. Which is when my info's from; I got

Re: INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
Using the standard setup you can simply issue ctlinnd newgroup commands for the newsgroups that you want to create. On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:26:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK heres a question. Ive read the documentation on setting up INN from redhat and the how to stuff from LDP. Both of

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-25 Thread Patrick Scott Darden
, Shawn McMahon wrote: -Original Message- From: James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 6:56 AM Subject: Re: Q: news servers (Are you sure your internet connectivity bandwidth is sufficient to accept a full newsfeed

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-25 Thread Patrick Scott Darden
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, William T Wilson wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: 56k won't cut it. Last time I checked, 128k would, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's gone past that now. I don't think you have. A full newsfeed is up over 10GB per day. It requires almost a

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 6:56 AM Subject: Re: Q: news servers (Are you sure your internet connectivity bandwidth is sufficient to accept a full newsfeed?) An important point, BTW

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: 56k won't cut it. Last time I checked, 128k would, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's gone past that now. I don't think you have. A full newsfeed is up over 10GB per day. It requires almost a full T-1 just to carry the news. Over half of this is

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread James Youngman
"jt" == Joe Tseng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jt Anyone here ever set up a news server with Linux? What software Yep. jt do you use to host the groups? How hard is it to do? I'd like inn, from the Red Hat CD. Unless you have particularly special needs, in which case you may get away

RE: Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread KThorpe
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:01:24 PDT From: "Joe Tseng" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Q: news servers We aren't running news here anymore, but I installed it once to try it. The server is INN (inn-1.7-2 in RH5.0). Read /usr/doc/HOWTO/News-HOWTO or take a quick hike to:

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread Will Shaw
I use Dnews, which is commercial software. (www.netwinsite.com) The only reason for doing this is that our internet provider doesn't give us a news feed, and I have to suck the feed from Supernews (www.supernews.com). 'suck' proved less than useful for an operation of this size (a few hundred