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<pre>NAME
newsproxy.pl - a perl-based Usenet "proxy" server
SYNOPSIS
newsproxy.pl [-hvd] [-p port]
DESCRIPTION
newsproxy.pl is a proxying news server, meaning that it doesn't
actually maintain any information locally - everything it gets
is off of other news servers. This is useful for several
reasons, the most obvious of which is to allow a user to read
news off of more than one server at a time. As different servers
contain different groups, this is important.
Other benefits:
o Allows non-NNTPAUTH capable news readers to connect to NNTPAUTH
enabled news servers.
o Allows the same newsgroup to be read on two different news servers,
allowing users to choose their filtering policies more carefully.
o Allow for overview-only feeds to allow users to share their idea of
what a given group should look like. (Not currently supported by any
servers, but it'd be interesting)
o Allows for fast access to "local" articles, even on remote and slow
servers, as long as
o Gives a framework to add additional news services, such as a news
cache.
newsproxy.pl is based around two perl modules -
Net::NNTP::Client and Net::NNTP::Proxy. Please see their manual
pages for more details.
USAGE
newsproxy.pl [-hvd] [-p port]
-h Prints a short help message and exits.
-v Print the version number and exit.
-d Print debugging information.
-p port Bind to 'port' instead of the default ($PORT).
NOTES
As it does require root priv's to bind to port 119, this code is
designed to drop down to user-level permissions (UID = 1) once
it's done so - there isn't a need to have this thing running
around as root.
REQUIREMENTS
Requires Perl 5 or better, Net::NNTP, News::Article (for
Net::NNTP::Proxy), Errno, and the NewsLib modules
(News::NNTPAuth, Net::NNTP::Proxy, and Net::NNTP::Client).
SEE ALSO
the Net::NNTP manpage, the Net::NNTP::Proxy manpage, the
Net::NNTP::Client manpage
TODO
Add in the rest of the functionality of INN
authinfo, help, ihave, list, newgroups, newnews, slave,
xgtitle, xhdr, xpat, xpath) currently don't work. (This is
part of the Net::NNTP::Proxy module).
Create a real admin interface
An extension to NNTP would make life easier here - use
authinfo and such, so that you can log into a server and
automatically get a list of groups rather than having to set
these variables here on your own.
Make this thing into a daemon
Start it and forget it. Alternately, it might be neat to add
this into inetd.conf.
Write some better code for handling the children.
Implement real authentication, and NNTPS.
Work on other related projects, like an NNTP cache.
AUTHOR
Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2001 Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>
This code may be used and/or distributed under the same terms as
Perl itself. Note that this is beta code; use it at your own
risk.
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