On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:18:02PM -0400, ljason wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > > > Is it possible to configure nntpcache such that our local > > news server would always be checked for the article before > > supernews... > [snip] > > Does this make sense? > > It definitely makes sense - when I first read through the server config > file, I was led to believe that nntpcache did this, but I'm afraid it > doesn't. If I recall, the question was posed a while back on this list, > and Julian confirmed that you can only specify one server for a given > newsgroup or hierarchy. > > I would certainly love to see this functionality; I've found it in a > couple of Windoze-only newsreaders, but I have yet to find a proxy server > that will do the right thing. I've actually been trudging through the > muck of Virtual PC and win95 on a pre-G3 PowerMac just to be able to do > this, and it's not pretty. A civilized approach is definitely called for. > > Anyone know of a caching proxy news server that does the hierarchical- > servers thing? Not I. But I sure would like to! We have one programmer here that might be willing to give nntpcache's source a once over to see if he could add this feature. -- Kelsey Cummings - kgc@sonic.net sonic.net System Administrator 300 B Street, Ste 101 707.522.1000 (Voice) Santa Rosa, CA 95404 707.547.2199 (Fax) http://www.sonic.net/ Fingerprint = 7F 59 43 1B 44 8A 0D 57 91 08 73 73 7A 48 90 C5
