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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken)
Subject: Re: Anyone w/386bsd NNTP server??
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Message-ID: <1992Nov12.160316.32994@news.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:03:16 GMT
References: <1992Nov11.210817.2593@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1992Nov11.210817.2593@athena.mit.edu>, vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Is there anyone out there who is using their 386bsd box as an NNTP
> server?
[...]
> If there is anyone who has already gone through this and triumphed,
> I'd be indebted to you for any tips or diffs :-) Thanks for any help that
> anyone can provide!
I suppose you already set up C-News or (*shudder* :) B-News, but I'd
suggest you look into INN 1.2 by Rich Salz. It's a complete news transport
system based on a central daemon which also does NNTP. It compiles right
out of the box on 386BSD (provided you don't tell it to use mmap() for the
active file :) and works like a charm. I have INN up and running on my
machine at home for nearly 2 months and had no problems up to now.
It's quite likely that INN puts less load on your system than C-News,
depending on the volume of news you get.
> -John
Hannes
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Hans-Christoph Deeken (Glenlivet on IRC)
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