Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:17:29 +0800 From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcing DNEWS 1.0c NNTP Server (NT, VMS, UNIX) Message-ID: <199508231017.SAA03696@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <303950c2.0@news.palm.cri.nz>
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Anyone interested in looking at the source for this new news
server and see how well it builds under FreeBSD (and then offer a
binary back to the maintainer)?
In article <303950c2.0@news.palm.cri.nz> netwin@world.std.com writes:
>
>DNEWS is a dynamic news server system, it is not a news reader!
>
>DNEWS Feature list:
> Dynamic sucking feed.
> A sucking feed may use as little as 10% of the normal
> disk space and network bandwidth.
> By only getting news items that people usually read
> very large savings are possible particularly for small
> sites & workgroups. A hundred users can be supported
> on 100 MB depending on their reading habbits!
> I run a single user server on my NT as a background
> service, it's using less than 5MB.
> Flexible expire settings
> By allowing expiration by 'number of items' low volume groups
> become much more useful. Also by allowing settings
> which change with disk space the system is much more
> stable to large influxes of news.
> Binarys available for common platforms
> On many platforms you do not need to build the binary
> yourself, e.g. VMS, (VAX & ALPHA), Solaris, Linux, Windows NT
> Email confirmation of posts
> DNEWS can be configured to send email confirmations as it
> sends items up to a main news server. This gives users
> a clear record of a posted item and it's successful
> transfer into the 'net'.
> Items stored in a database
> Items are stored in a database which puts items together
> in blocks of 100. This saves directory entries, inodes,
> and the empty space usually wasted due to blocking factors.
> Also file open and closes are minimized, this is essential
> on systems where this is a 'costly' operation, e.g. VMS.
> Compiling and porting relatively easy
> DNEWS was designed to be portable from the ground up, it
> does not rely on obscure UNIX features.
> Installation easy, totally configurable without recompiling
> DNEWS can be configured without recompiling and all
> the configuration scripts have been simplified where
> possible.
> Documentated
> A user manual is available.
> Supported
> EMAIL support is available for help with installation
> and management.
> Speed
> On comparable systems DNEWS typically out performs other
> news software, (even the likes of CNEWS and INN in some
> instances), other VMS news servers don't even come close.
> This is partly because DNEWS uses a more advanced database
> to store the news items. The difference is also very
> noteable on smaller systems (e.g. Linux)
> XOVER implemented in software
> No xover database is created, the normal DNEWS database
> is fast enough to create this information 'on the fly'
> Streaming support
> Streaming NNTP extensions are built in.
> Strictly limited machine impact
> DNEWS runs in a single process, this speeds up connect
> time as a process does not need to be created, and it
> self-limits the impact on the system.
>Limitations:
> DNEWS does not store items in the same file structure as used by
> INN and CNEWS, so old software which accesses these files directly
> will not work.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Upload binarys or source from:
> ftp.std.com /ftp/vendors/netwin/dnews
>For more details upload
> ftp.std.com /ftp/vendors/netwin/dnews/install.txt
>
>Binaries are available for VMS, (VAX & ALPHA), Solaris, Linux, Windows NT
>Source is available on request, see source.txt in the ftp site
>
> http://world.std.com/~netwin
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>
> netwin@world.std.com
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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