[H-GEN] proxy news server for Linux ??

Martin Pool mbp at pharos.com.au
Tue Dec 2 01:35:01 EST 1997


On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Eric Hornsby wrote:

> I'd like to provide a news service to a couple of fake ip (192.168)
> networks, but I don't really want to run a news server proper.
> 
> I understand there may be some programs that will act like a caching proxy
> news server, but allow me to take requests from the fake ip network
> machines (through netscape, say) and pass those requests out to a news
> server on the net.....
> 
> anyone got any suggestions ?
> or know of a web proxy server that handles nntp ?

There's a Perl CGI which acts as an NNTP proxy, giving you an interface
kind of like Deja News.  Sorry, I forget the name.

--
Martin

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