On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Robert Hardy wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Nimrod Dahan wrote: > > I haven't found any manual.... > > Or any syntax explanations for the servers configuration file (only examples). > > > > So I will ask you: > > > > Now the cache consults ONLY the fast server. > > This is bad because most of the articles on that server expires FAST. > > > > Again, what I want is that when I ask nntpcache for an article in a alt.* > > group > > it will first chech in it's cache, if it's not there will check the fast > > server and if it's > > not there check the slow one. > > > > I'm not even sure nntpcache is able to do this. But if it can, I would > > appriciate > > instructions how to do this. > > Perhaps I didn't make myself clear the first time, from what I have seen, > nntpcache will NOT do this. > > Caching aside, it will only consult the first server which carries the group > and ONLY the first server. It does not consult other servers even if they > carry articles not on the first server which has the group. leafnode will do this -- at least according to its documentation. And, at least on FreeBSD, leafnode is much, much quicker than nntpcache. -Chris -- Chris A. Mattingly camattin@camattin.com http://www.camattin.com/ (Don't waste your time :) ) http://www.freebsdzone.com/ (Please visit and give the requested feedback!)
