hello -

i have been working on rolling my own news server and want to do better understanding how exactly usenet functions instead of just standing up
innd. i was trying to understand if peering exactly was documented
anywhere, so i wanted to ask if it was based on rfc 4644, or if there
are other sort of considerations i should keep in mind while setting it up.

i could (and prob will) just read the innfeed source, but wanted to
double check that i was on the right track

thanks

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Hi,

well, (news)peering is basically just sending articles to another. And in
this group we discuss peering, but also request newsfeeds (a stream of articles). The practice peers do exchange a feed is called peering.

Possibly based on constraints (everything, big8, only alt.obscure). And in
my case I just distribute everything I receive to others. But also posts originated on my own server.

That's about it, really. Detailed questions about how to configure innd
can be asked in news.software.nntp.

Does that answer your questions?

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On 10/19/20 11:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

well, (news)peering is basically just sending articles to another. And in this group we discuss peering, but also request newsfeeds (a stream of articles). The practice peers do exchange a feed is called peering.

Possibly based on constraints (everything, big8, only alt.obscure). And in
my case I just distribute everything I receive to others. But also posts originated on my own server.

That's about it, really. Detailed questions about how to configure innd
can be asked in news.software.nntp.

Does that answer your questions?

not exactly - i was curious more of the nitty-gritty, but that's good background information. i will look in news.software.nntp, thanks a lot!

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On 10/19/20 7:45 AM, phoebe wrote:

hello -

Hi,

i have been working on rolling my own news server and want to do
better understanding how exactly usenet functions instead of just
standing up innd.

Okay.

Questions are a good opening for us to answer. ;-)

i was trying to understand if peering exactly was documented anywhere,
so i wanted to ask if it was based on rfc 4644, or if there are other
sort of considerations i should keep in mind while setting it up.

Yes, there are other things to consider.

First, peering at a high level is an agreement to exchange articles.

Part of that agreement is /how/ the articles are to be exchanged, and
what format those articles will be in.

- Network News Transfer Protocol is one of a handful of ways to peer.

- Unix to Unix CoPy is another way to peer.

- It's also possible to exchange articles with File Transfer Protocol.

- People used to write news articles out to tape and exchange them.

- You could probably even exchange articles via Kermit if you wanted to.

- Then there's remote access to a news spool and copying articles.

NNTP and UUCP have some implications on what format the articles are in.
FTP, tape, and Kermit are more flexible.

I'd say that NNTP, followed at a distance by UUCP, are by far the most prevalent methods to peer for Usenet.

i could (and prob will) just read the innfeed source, but wanted to
double check that i was on the right track

Seeing as how INN relies on system provided UUCP package, I doubt you
will find nearly as much about it compared to NNTP, which INN supports internally.

thanks

You're welcome.



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