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Linux Network Administrator Guide, Second EditionEfficient news transfer over networks like TCP/IP or DECNet required a new scheme. So in 1986, the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) was introduced. It is based on network connections and specifies a number of commands to interactively transfer and retrieve articles. There are a number of NNTP-based applications available from the Net. One of them is the nntpd package by Brian Barber and Phil Lapsley, which you can use to provide newsreading service to a number of hosts inside a local network. nntpd was designed to complement news packages, such as B News or C News, to give them NNTP features. If you want to use NNTP with the C News server, you should read Chapter 22, NNTP and the nntpd Daemon, which explains how to configure the nntpd daemon and run it with C News. An alternative package supporting NNTP is INN, or Internet News. It is not just a frontend, but a news system in its own right. It comprises a sophisticated news relay daemon that can maintain several concurrent NNTP links efficiently, and is therefore the news server of choice for many Internet sites ...» |
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