mark@spider.co.uk (Mark Valentine) (02/20/91)
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. -- Mark Valentine, Spider Systems <mark@spider.co.uk> /\oo/\ "It's not red, and there's no rocks in it."