Re: News server software
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 12:56:27PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
:
: 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.
If you're going to split up feeding and reading over multiple boxes, INN
isn't really the way to go for the feeder. INN will do just fine && dandy
for the reader box. I've always found INN much more straightforward to
setup than cnews with nntpd and msgidd grafted on top.
For the feed machine, have a look at Cyclone's NewsRouter product
(http://www.highwind.com/), or Diablo (no, not the game)
which is available from http://www.backplane.com/diablo/.
A guy (who happens to supply me a couple of T1's), runs his news feeder
box on an UltraSparc 1/170E configured like:
512MB of RAM
about 18G of disk
Solaris 2.5.1 w/patches..
It sits on a 100 Base-T switched ethernet connected to the 'net via:
T-3 to MAE East over private fiber
T-3 peering w/ PANIX in NYC
34 MB SMDS with Sprint @ the Pennsauken, NJ NAP
(45MB ?) ATM to MAE West
34 MB SMDS peering w/a UUNet connected ISP
My newsfeed is.... Oh, let's say, "as current as it gets"... :) He's
got no trouble with Cyclone, and it's blindingly fast.
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