Chapter 23. Internet News
The Internet News daemon (INN) is arguably the most popular Netnews server in use today. INN is extremely flexible and is suitable for all but the smallest news sites.[135]INN scales well and is suited to large news server configurations.
The INN server comprises a number of components, each with their own configuration files that we will discuss in turn. Configuration of INN can be a little involved, but we’ll describe each of the stages in this chapter and arm you with enough information to make sense of the INN manual pages and documentation and build configurations for just about any application.
Some INN Internals
INN’s core program is the innd daemon.
innd’s task is to handle all incoming articles,
storing them locally, and to pass them on to any outgoing newsfeeds if
required. It is started at boot time and runs continually as a background
process. Running as a daemon improves performance because it has to read
its status files only once when starting. Depending
on the volume of your news feed, certain files such as
history (which contain a list of all recently
processed articles) may range from a few megabytes to tens of megabytes.
Another important feature of INN is that there is always only one instance of innd running at any time. This is also very beneficial to performance, because the daemon can process all articles without having to worry about synchronizing its internal states with other copies of innd rummaging around the news spool at the ...
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