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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley > Sent: 31 December 2001 19:58 > To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [LUG] Newsgroup Servers > > Firstly a Happy New Year to you all out there in lugland... The same to you ;) > Secondly, can anyone recommend a good Newsgroup server to play > with? The OSC lacks an Apache style news server (flexible, secure, easy to understand). The sendmail of nntp is INN (http://www.isc.org/products/INN/) from the ISC, however that for some people is reason enough not to use it. It has always proved itself secure for me, and fairly easy to set up, though I have had some problems load balancing it. It is fast under high loads, though a bit overkill if you are only serving small loads/local news server. Others that I know of: - dnews (http://netwinsite.com/dnews.htm) This one isn't open source, but it does have a few bonuses - It has a windows config tool and although is a big confuzling to set up at first, is easy to maintain. I've only used it while testing it out for a company, and choose against it for the one reason it was closed source. It load balances easily, but was rather slow with huge loads. - leafnode (http://www.leafnode.org/) Another small news server not designed for ISP/heavy usage, but is stable, works well and easy to set up. I used it for a while internally in a few companies, and they havn't seemed to have any problems with it. - sn (http://infa.abo.fi/~patrik/sn/) Designed for small, personal/internal networks where security isn't a problem, lossing messages doesn't matter, and spped isn't an issue. its not yet 100% finished, but has potential and needs developers. I've only tried it once, and soon gave up ;p Of course, there are other options, depending on your situation - NNTPcache (http://www.nntpcache.org/) is great, and I use it a lot. If there are any I missed out, I would be interested in hearing about them, as news servers are one of the big headaches I regularly get with work :( I'm currently running INN, but it's a bit to evil for me.... Bah... 6 minutes until new year. I'm not going to finish this program before 2002. There goes my new year 2001 resolution ;) Theo =) Theo Zourzouvillys Global Network Consultant - -- + Notnet Consultancy [ www.notnet.co.uk ] - Specialising in Unix security, ISP Start-up and regeneration, - MySQL solutions, E-commerce, and Load balancing. + Notnet.co.uk - Quality web hosting at an affordable price - http://pinky.notnet.co.uk/ + http://www.anlx.net/ + Mobile: +44 7747 844 300 + theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx + Personal Website: http://www.zozo.org.uk/ + Spod: telnet://www.trekkers-rest.com:3000/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPDD6l+OPAq8KU5+mEQIYPQCgmUWTPGP7eKKa1pv6G7j781ZQtKYAn3Jx wE60L0czSj3QGeEHuHMrzCGg =CkRM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.