On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:59:58PM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote:
> I have a small LAN with a linux box doing ip masquerading. Two different
> offices share this box as a gateway, one of them owning the DSL connection
> and account/password needed to access the isp's news server
>
> Well, the guy who does not own the account/password wants to read news and
> I don't want him to have the password.
>
> I figured I can setup a news proxy server that gets the news from the real
> news server without him having to provide the username and password.
>
> Do either of these support this?
>
> Is there an easier way? (other than using a free news server which he does
> not want to do)
If you get him to provide you with a list of the groups he wants to join,
then you could use any NNTP cache (like leafnode) to pull those groups to
the local machine where you could host your own NNTP server.
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