Ah! Well, with a few thousand customers ... hmmm, separate your news into feeder and reader machines. Run INN on the feeder(s) which handle your remote newsfeeds and leafnode feeds to the reader machines. cnews + nntpd + msgidd is still PLENTY fast enough for the reader machines. As a matter of fact, you will likely experiance less trouble that way. The reader machines would have only one feed ... to the main feeder machine.
I think that you would find that you can support more readers per machine with cnews+nntpd than you can with INN. There is one other additional benefit that can make you more money: On the reader machines, create user entries in passwd without a login shell but with a username/password pair DIFFERENT than their system login. Use NIS to distribute this between the reader machines. Compile nnptd with authorization support and users can connect to your news machines from outside your network (from work or while on the road) and they have a separate news login/password that you can use to authenticate them. Now you can sell news accounts to people who may not be your dialup customers. Handy if your news is better than competitors in your area, you can charge THEIR customers $10 a month to read YOUR news and they pay for the dialup access elsewhere. On 15-Nov-97 Shaleh wrote: > As an ISP with a few thousand customers, I guess that qualifies me as > bigger than cnews. I have just been informed that my news server is not > beefy enough at only 96mb of RAM and an 8 gig hard drive. Oh well. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
