| Subject: (1.11) Can I run the reference implementation (NNTP1.5) with INN? |
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The quick answer is no. INN listens on the NNTP port and handles all incoming traffic. It receives articles, files them, and arranges for them to be forwarded to your peers. If a site connects that is not listed as a peer (e.g., a local workstation that does newsreading) then the INN server hands the connection off to another program that handles just the NNTP commands that newsreaders use. By default, this is nnrpd (notice the "r"), which implements the NNTP protocol for newsreaders (for example, it includes the POST command but not the IHAVE command). You can run the reference implementation server instead of nnrpd if you want. Doing this can be useful if you have clients that want to do both reading and article transfer. ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:49 $ $Revision: 2.37 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |
