On Sun, 13 Sep 1998 james@wwnet.net wrote:
> Unless my thinking is wrong, I was planning on having a primary nntp
> server that it would cache everything (this machine only keeps articles
Cache? Is this server running nntpcache or a normal nntp server?
> for 2 weeks but is a very fast machine and network connection). And then
> the secondary nntp server keeps articles for much longer (2 months) but is
> a slower machine and is more costly to connect to.
I still don't really understand still. You aren't clear whether
about what is a server, and what is cache. Are you talking about:
client ---> NNTPCache #1 ---> NNTPCache #2 ---> NNTP Server
Where cache #1 has storage for a two weeks, and cache #2 has storage for
2 months. This is easy enough to do.
or:
/----- NNTP server #1
|
client --> NNTPCache ---|
|
\----- NNTP server #2
Where server #1 has storage for two weeks and server #2 has storage for
2 months. This can't be done, and is very difficult to implement if the
NNTP servers don't use the same article numbering (ie. slaved servers).
> James
Tom
