[geeks] NNTP Server

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Dan Duncan wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> > Anyone have any experience setting up an NNTP server, such as INN,
> > Leafnode, or nntpcache?
> 
> I ran leafnode for quite a while fetching overnight so a windows-based user
> could grab articles from it quickly on demand instead of bogging down our
> slow internet connection.  I loved how dynamically it worked and how little
> effort it took to maintain once it was installed.  I haven't played with it
> in quite some time, however.

Last time I ran it, it leaked memory badly.  The server it ran on had 64
megs of RAM and if I didn't remeber to kill and restart leafnode every
few days, it would run the machine out of RAM until it had to be
rebooted to recover it.  But, that was 5-6 years ago.