29 Jun
2011
29 Jun
'11
2:53 p.m.
On 6/29/11 3:28 PM, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
Hey is anybody running INN, especially under Solaris
10?
I am.
I am using leafnode under Linux and I'm mostly
happy with it but I'm
thinking about moving this service off my desktop and running it on a
server, probably under Solaris 10. I figured while I am at it maybe I
should consider INN because of the option of using a different spool
format that is supposed to increase performance significantly. Recovering
or moving my news spool which is not that big at around 4G takes forever
(not that I do it a lot, but I have done it and it's a pain) and now the
startup each time a client connects takes a while. I think I'm outgrowing
leafnode.
I'm running it with a ZFS spool with compression enabled.
Performance is good.
I'm curious how much work it takes to administer
INN for a small network to
know if it's worth it or just overkill. Specifically, I want to be able to
only host groups I want (about 500) including local-only groups rather
than doing a complete usenet grab, and I would like to be able to support
SSL connections directly. I use stunnel now on Linux but I've had some
problems with it on Solaris 10, so if INN supports it directly that would
be a plus.
There's some setup work, but that's par for the course for INN. Once
it's set up, it seems to just keep rolling along just fine. If you
decide to try it, feel free to contact me if you run into trouble, I may
be able to help you out.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL