Topic: NNTP Server - Which one to install?

[Scott Lewis]

I fancy trying to setup a NNTP server, not just to pull NG in in from my ISP news server but host my own.

Has anyone else done this and if so what do they recommend. Am using SME v5

Scott

[Alex Ziemann]

Hi there,

as far as i know, about 90 % of the nntp-server out there are running inn.

I never tested it. Leafnode will do.

For running your own news-server, you will need

1. static ip
2. permanent connection
3. lots of bandwidth (think of the alt.binaries hirarchy
4. quite a big server (about 200 GB diskspace for news only, lots of RAM).

At least this is, what the people at the FU-Berlin do with their cis.dfn servers.

You will never try this on a Pentium Machine running at a 20 GB hard-disk right?
News-server are dedicated machines.

hth
Alex

[Dan Brown]

Alex, you're right about a news server for a full feed (IIRC, a full feed would saturate a DS3 and then some), but I'm not sure that's what Scott had in mind. For a small local news server (say, one which carries only the text-only groups that users are reading), leafnode on an e-smith server would be just fine.  Unfortunately, leafnode doesn't support local newsgroups at this time:

http://www.leafnode.org/faq.html#6

[Scott Lewis]

Since my furst post I have been thinking further on this. I am now more inclined just to support a local set of NG that I devise and wont want to get my ISP's newsgroup, especially after listening about size of hard drive.

With this in mind, I gather leafnode is not an option, so which one may be able to do what I want.

Scott

[Scott Lewis]

Since my furst post I have been thinking further on this. I am now more inclined just to support a local set of NG that I devise and wont want to get my ISP's newsgroup, especially after listening about size of hard drive.

With this in mind, I gather leafnode is not an option, so which one may be able to do what I want.

Scott