On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:27:17AM -0400, Chris A. Mattingly wrote: > > 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. It works well - the only thing that can cause problems is that it keeps no history beyond the currently stored articles so it can sometimes get articles a second time if they are slow enough to appear on one server. Leafnode isn't completely transparent to end users (attempts to read an unread group give a "news will appear shortly" placeholder until the next sync with the server) and you need to kick off the process that syncs with the upstream servers yourself. -- Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
