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From: mark@spider.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.b
Subject: Any alternatives to Cnews/NNTP with NFS/rsh?
Summary: How can I forward NNTP news?
Keywords: cnews nntp rsh nfs reliability security
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.133200.12854@spider.co.uk>
Date: 20 Feb 91 13:32:00 GMT
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Nntp-Posting-Host: redknee.spider.co.uk

Scenario:  I have an NNTP newsfeed with nntpd running on a "firewall" external
gateway system whose lack of CPU and disk resources mean that I want to avoid
setting up a full news system on it.  (In fact I'm hobbling along using C news
and a spool partition "borrowed" via NFS.)

What I want to do is move the bulk of the news system onto another, more
powerful, internal system, which for various reasons can't speak NNTP directly
to the outside world.

The closest support I can find for this in the standard cnews and nntp
distributions involves NFS mounting NEWSSPOOL and NEWSLIB and using rsh
to invoke relaynews/inews.  I'd like to avoid both NFS and rsh as much
as possible (for obvious reliability and security reasons).  I realise
that, at minimum, nntpd needs access to the history file and some way
to feed batches to a remote relaynews.  Also, nntpxmit (run via newsxd)
has to be able to access the articles in the spool directory.

Does anyone have any experience with a similar setup?  What solutions have
you adopted?  Is what I want to do unreasonable or misguided?  I'd appreciate
any guidance I can get.

		Mark.
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Mark Valentine, Spider Systems <mark@spider.co.uk>            /\oo/\
   "It's not red, and there's no rocks in it."


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