Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:03:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Graydon Hoare ()" <admin@multinet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID Controller Product Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961003153815.20647D-100000@house.multinet.net> In-Reply-To: <199610031815.IAA13726@pegasus.com>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Richard Foulk wrote: > Hadn't thought of that. In that light, more reliable servers (with > RAID, etc.) may be more appropriate than multiple/redundant servers > (since that's where this thread started.) these newsserver threads are weird. We don't run netnews here because the hardware overhead is too high. But netnews is designed to be a peer-to-peer thing, right? Where you select where you get your feeds from, and who else you are willing to feed, ja? So, if (big IF here) IP6 is designed to make autoconfiguration a reality and people start having more than just IP numbers in their homes, but actually running some services as well, isn't it likely that a consumer firmware netnews server will show up to relieve the centralized points of failure, and ease the pressure on every site having to carry all of its users' possible intrests all the time? i.e. one newsserver, one user, that sorts thing? I know there are already condominiums going up with ethernets & ISDN wirings. Why should NETCOM's ability to keep their servers running dictate who, in a whole city, gets to use netnews? Just thinkin... -graydon <admin@multinet.net>
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