brister@vix.com writes: > Evening all, > > I'm woefully ignorant of nntpcache and digging through the docs enlightened me > a lot, but not completly. Can you tell me if nntpcache can handle this setup: > > machine A has INN running and a partial feed. ``Partial feed'' in this context > means not every article in a group gets through. > > machine B has INN running and has all articles in all groups (whatever that > means) on it. > > machine C runs nntpcache. > > The question: can the nntpcache on machine C be configured so that the union of > the articles in a group from machine A and B are accessable to the reading > client? The goal is to have articles from a group pulled from machine A if it > has them, and go to machine B if it doesn't. > > How does article numbering get handled, if it is handled? > > Thanks > > James > -- > James Brister brister@vix.com > Internet Software Consortium http://www.isc.org inn@isc.org Unfortunately no :( The groups can be spread accross multiple news servers, but nntpcache must be told, deterministicly, which pattern of groups is associated with which server. The reason is the article numbering - although if you are running two (recent) inn's, and enable INN article number mirroring and create a unified rotary IP DNS record for the two news-servers concerned nntpcache will use server a or server b, depending on which is up. This does not equal a conglomerated view of articles within a *specific* group however. Cheers, Julian.
