- From: Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@miriworld.its.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:22:07 +1000 (EST)
- To: David Miller <isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us>
- Cc: benjamin@hanover.demon.co.uk, brogers@integctr.com, firewalls@greatcircle.com, www-proxy@w3.org
On Wed, 5 Jul 1995, David Miller wrote: (in firewalls@GreatCircle.COM) > On Tue, 4 Jul 1995 benjamin@hanover.demon.co.uk wrote: > > > > Is there such a thing as a caching proxy for NNTP? I don't want to > > > dedicate the disk space and bandwidth to a real news feed. > > > > I believe there is a package called INN 8-) > > > > No, seriously... Appart from running a news server, I have not found a > > solution... 8-( > > Something doesn't seem quite right here. If brogers doesn't want to have > a dedicated news feed but still wants access to news, he must be looking > for an NNRP proxy, not an NNTP proxy right? If that's the case, Yes > something like netscape will work just fine using the standard httpd > proxy. If you want to use "tin" across a firewall though, you'll have to > hack something in. I don't know of any NNRP proxies either. Except that none of the http/nnrp proxies will cache news. I think news is a good candidate for caching, personally. That way a regional news server could carry a full feed, and small ISPs could have all groups accessible w/o having to take a full feed themselves. Its on my wish list. I don't think it will make it to the *do* list, other than maybe hacking CERN proxy server to cache news articles. I remember Ari said caching news was bad, but I never understood why, after all, articles don't change, they have static "urls" and have an easily defined expiry dates. Danny
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