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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: nntp speed through loopback
Keywords: nn nntp speed rn rrn
Message-ID: <508@eda.com>
Date: 5 Jul 89 07:18:24 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: EDA Systems, Inc. Santa Clara, CA
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Background:

	I am the news admin. for our LAN. My machine (Sun386i) is also
the machine with the news tree on it's disk, and is the UUCP gateway for
the outside world, and the nntp server for the inside world.

The question:
	In providing rn/rrn and now nn to my LAN for news reading, I
find that I have to compile them with AND without nntp support. If
I, the only user of the machine with the news on its own disk use
nntp, how much actual performance loss will I encounter? I assume
rrn and nn would connect through the loopback instead of actually
going through the ethernet. (correct???)


jim
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