NNTPd Version 1.1 Beta
Rafael W. Luebbert
aminet in comm/tcp.
Changes from 1.0:
1) Logs of bugs squashed.
2) Now accepts posts and ihave commands.
3) Newnews and newgroups now working.
4) Includes many utils, including expire, history database
support, an active file updater, and more.
As this is a beta version, there are sure to be bugs which I have
not found. Please send me mail with your bug reports so the
release version can be constructed and released.
I am working right now on a means of broadcasting posts to other
sites, and this should be done shortly.
Rafael Luebbert
lueb...@musc.edu
Ulrich Flegel
: The 1.1 beta version of the NNTP daemon NNTPd is now available on
I have some rather dumb question onto this:
I now use nntpxfer to get my news. I use Postnews (the queueing variant) to
send my news.
1) using nntpd, can I get my news via NNTPD? Can nntpd make another nntpd
in my univ to send over new news? Or must the univ nntpd spontaneously
offer new news? (just trying to replace nntpxfer)
2) can I use nntpd to post my news followups to my own localhost while i am
not online? can nntpd post these news then when i am online somewhen?
(just trying to replyce the queuing PostNews, whil enot loosing offline
posting)
TIA, Ulrich.
Lauri Aalto
> 1) using nntpd, can I get my news via NNTPD? Can nntpd make another nntpd
> in my univ to send over new news? Or must the univ nntpd spontaneously
> offer new news? (just trying to replace nntpxfer)
Yes. The daemons can talk to each other and tell what news have been received
recently so the daemons keep themselves up to date automatically. The
remote nntpd won't offer you any news if not requested. Basically your nntp
program requests a list of msgids of articles received by the remote host
after a certain date and compares the msgid list to the local database
getting articles which are not present in the local history file.
> 2) can I use nntpd to post my news followups to my own localhost while i am
> not online? can nntpd post these news then when i am online somewhen?
> (just trying to replyce the queuing PostNews, whil enot loosing offline
> posting)
Yes. The remote nntpd will normally issue the same commands for you as your
nntpd did when it downloaded new articles.
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> Yes. The daemons can talk to each other and tell what news have been received
> recently so the daemons keep themselves up to date automatically. The
How do I initiate the talk between the two deamon?
I would like to use NNTPd instead of UUCP. I do no like the way UUCP
work, however their isn't much doc on how I can make NNTPd work. How
will it know the name of my news server? Is that all there is to tell
it? It won't work if AmiTCP is not loaded but I have yet to find a way
to make AmiTCP work without trying to connect my PPP number.
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Ulrich Flegel
: Ulrich Flegel (fle...@lorraine.ts.rz.tu-bs.de) wrote:
: > 1) using nntpd, can I get my news via NNTPD? Can nntpd make another nntpd
: > in my univ to send over new news? Or must the univ nntpd spontaneously
: > offer new news? (just trying to replace nntpxfer)
: Yes. The daemons can talk to each other and tell what news have been received
: recently so the daemons keep themselves up to date automatically. The
: program requests a list of msgids of articles received by the remote host
: after a certain date and compares the msgid list to the local database
: getting articles which are not present in the local history file.
Now, how do I make nntpd to get news (the groups in my active) from a remote
nntpd? What do I have to configure. Do i have to configure anything on the
remote nntpd?
:
: > 2) can I use nntpd to post my news followups to my own localhost while i am
: > not online? can nntpd post these news then when i am online somewhen?
: > (just trying to replyce the queuing PostNews, whil enot loosing offline
: > posting)
:
: Yes. The remote nntpd will normally issue the same commands for you as your
: nntpd did when it downloaded new articles.
How do I do it then? How to set up nntpd so it keeps my news when offline
and sends when online? I have not seen any docs for any configfiles for
nntpd.
What I ask for is "simply" how to set up nntpd further (I have set up the
things in the docs). Furthermore, how to send ENV:NNTPSERVER. should be
localhost now, eh? but how does nntpd know which remote nntpd to connect
to?
Ulrich.
Ulrich Flegel
: In article <aalto...@spit.fipnet.fi> aa...@spit.fipnet.fi (Lauri Aalto) writes:
: > Yes. The daemons can talk to each other and tell what news have been received
: > recently so the daemons keep themselves up to date automatically. The
:
My quesiotn :-)
:
: I would like to use NNTPd instead of UUCP. I do no like the way UUCP
: work, however their isn't much doc on how I can make NNTPd work.
sad but true. may be we read the rc that came with it ? :-)
How
: will it know the name of my news server?
i would want to know this, too. the nntpserver envvar is used by the local
news tools (like tin) which shall connect to the local nntpd. so nntpserver
must be set to localhost, right?
Is that all there is to tell
: it?
may someone will tell us?
It won't work if AmiTCP is not loaded but I have yet to find a way
: to make AmiTCP work without trying to connect my PPP number.
easy. just commetn out a online ppp0 line if there is one in your startup
script. make online ppp0 when you want to go online then.
Ulrich.
Lauri Aalto
> Now, how do I make nntpd to get news (the groups in my active) from a remote
> nntpd? What do I have to configure. Do i have to configure anything on the
> remote nntpd?
You'll have to find a server which can feed your nntpd automatically. For
specific installation instructions see the various manual pages provided
with nntpd. Your nntpd will connect to its neighbors (as defined in the sys
file) when it either has new articles or wants some.
The news sys file entry may need some editing on the remote end too.
> : > 2) can I use nntpd to post my news followups to my own localhost while i am
> : > not online? can nntpd post these news then when i am online somewhen?
> : > (just trying to replyce the queuing PostNews, whil enot loosing offline
> : > posting)
> :
> : Yes. The remote nntpd will normally issue the same commands for you as your
> : nntpd did when it downloaded new articles.
> How do I do it then? How to set up nntpd so it keeps my news when offline
> and sends when online? I have not seen any docs for any configfiles for
> nntpd.
You need to have the TCP/IP stack running - the network itself doesn't need
to be up. While posting news your nntpd will store the article to your disk
and offer it to the neighboring systems when connected.
FYI, the docs are in the man directory...
> What I ask for is "simply" how to set up nntpd further (I have set up the
> things in the docs). Furthermore, how to send ENV:NNTPSERVER. should be
> localhost now, eh? but how does nntpd know which remote nntpd to connect
> to?
Yes, ENV:NNTPSERVER contains the NNTP server address for newsreaders and
other clients. The sys file contains information for nntpd about
neighboring systems and groups to accept.