Sorry about my recent post which made no sense. I will attempt to rephrase: I have questions concerning nntpcache's multiplexing implementation. I was unable to find the answer by doing a web-search or looking through the documentation in the latest beta distribution tar. How does nntpcache deal with multiple servers with similar content? I'm especially interested in how it deals with servers that have varying levels of article retention, different sets of missing articles, varying IP latency & different "costs". To be more specific on the topic of different "costs": I'm wondering if it can be taught to merge the offerings of many low grade cheaper news servers (such as those which are available at local ISPs) and top up using several premium news services which have per Meg costs. Does it attempt to do load balancing among the servers? Ideally, I'm looking for a multiplexing solution which will dynamically select the best server from which to download a given article. Does nntpcache do this? I've RTFM but my question seems to be too specific. I'm basically looking for the features of Newsplex by Adam Mirowski in a Linux server based solution. Unfortunately, Mr. Mirowski seems to have dropped of the face of the net and his free-ware package does not include source. Newsplex: "It always uses the best server for requesting an article among those who have it, and uses one of the other servers if the best one could not deliver the article. Servers are rated dynamically according to speed, latency, and availability." Here is a review and download page for Newsplex if you want to read more: http://www.softseek.com/Internet/Newsgroup_Readers_and_Tools/Review_27445_index.html Regards, Rob -- ----------------"Linux the choice of a GNU Generation!"----------------- Robert Hardy C.E.O. Webcon Inc. rhardy@webcon.net PGP Key available by finger (613) 276-6206
