Overview
Administering Usenet News Servers is an indispensable guide to planning, building and administering a robust UNIX news server. The netnews applications INN and DNEWS are thoroughly explained from both an installation and maintenance standpoint. This book also contains useful background information to help educate USENET newcomers and to demystify a topic that has, to date, been shrouded in Internet folklore. With their years of experience in information transfer, Jim McDermott and John Phillips offer a hands-on approach to administering USENET News Servers that covers:
- Planning you platform, connectivity and budget
- Constructing your server, and installation and configuration of software
- Administering your server--including Intranet access and use, security issues, and legalities
- Regulation of employee postings to newsgroups
- Using PERL scripts to prevent leakage of Intranet newsgroups to the internet
The accompanying CD-ROM includes all application software, utilities, and scripts necessary to implement and INN or DNEWS server and keep it running smoothly.
Administering Usenet News Servers details the installation, configuration, optimization, and ongoing management of a news server on a UNIX platform (the most common of news servers). The CD contains software, utilities, and scripts that allow readers to set up and maintain their own news servers.