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From: csmoko@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Chuck Smoko - E41)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Article number sync between servers
Keywords: nntp,admin
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.113706.27287@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 11 Apr 91 11:37:06 GMT
Sender: Chuck Smoko (csmoko@relay.nswc.navy.mil)
Reply-To: csmoko@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Chuck Smoko - E41)
Organization: NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER (NAVSWC)
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Hello fellow 'News Admins', 
Our site is looking to provide a reliable news service to our many
users (several hundred and growing).  We were wondering if there exists
a way to have backup/multiple news servers.  This may seem at first
seem like a trivial problem which can be solved by having two or more
machines running the news server software (i.e.  Cnews or Bnews).  The
problem, however, is keeping article numbers 'in SYNC' between the
machines.  By doing so, the .newsrc files will not loose track of
read/unread data. Ideas such as NFS mounts and shell scripts have been
tossed around, but they all seem like real KLUDGES.  What I was
wondering is:  Is there any way that the news server software could
'SYNC' article numbers between servers?  Other methods of SYNCing are
also of interest.

If you are interested or have a solution, please send me a mail
message. If there seems to be significant interest, I will post a
summary.

                                                Thanks in advance,
                                                Chuck Smoko
                                                csmoko@relay.nswc.navy.mil

PS: I also posted this question to news.sysadmin