nntp proxy?

Hello,

Does anyone know of documentation for setting up a linux (Mandrake 8)
box as a proxy server for usenet news? This would be to allow a mobile
system without news server access to use a linux system with access to
a news server as a proxy for that usenet news service (the news server
in question only allows a restricted range of IP's to use it). Google
news is nice, but slow to index new messages.

Bill <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello,

> Does anyone know of documentation for setting up a linux (Mandrake 8)
> box as a proxy server for usenet news? This would be to allow a mobile
> system without news server access to use a linux system with access to
> a news server as a proxy for that usenet news service (the news server
> in question only allows a restricted range of IP's to use it). Google
> news is nice, but slow to index new messages.

Sounds as if you could use 'leafnode', pretty easy to setup.
Comes with many distro.

Good luck

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Bill wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of documentation for setting up a linux (Mandrake 8)
> box as a proxy server for usenet news?
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NewsCache http://members.aon.at/hstraub/linux/newscache/
noffle http://noffle.sf.net

and many others at http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/servers.html

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Carles Arjona (E-Mail Removed) ( nospammer IS my real username ).

"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) m...
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of documentation for setting up a linux (Mandrake 8)
> box as a proxy server for usenet news? This would be to allow a mobile
> system without news server access to use a linux system with access to
> a news server as a proxy for that usenet news service (the news server
> in question only allows a restricted range of IP's to use it). Google
> news is nice, but slow to index new messages.

Any of the simple TCP/IP relay programs could be used.
you dont need to use a news caching program!




You dont need to run a usenet news cache program.