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Re: DCAnet (was: Re: [PLUG] Comcast Crackdown)
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Will Dyson wrote:
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> If people are going to leech all day (and some always will), far better
> for them to leech from the local NNTP server, rather than sucking up
> your upstream bandwidth.
Thing is that NNTP servers that can't handle the full feed (now running from 13
to 14.2 Gigabytes per hour on average) cause reposts of missing parts of
multi-part binaries, which increases the mess even more so. There's also
beginning to be refusal of transit on large binaries (people are posting whole
DVDs, files of t.v. shows, etc.), which makes the whole binary picture even
more interesting.
Even the dedicated news providers are having trouble keeping up without
throwing lots of hardware at the problem. Supernews was at one point down to
two days retention on binaries before upgrading their server farm. Altopia has
all groups on the same retention and it's less than 48 hours some days (a
hardware upgrade there went south so Chris Caputo had a capital-investment
problem -- their connectivity is excellent).
Giganews appears not to transit all articles fed to it -- which lead to a
public showdown with an ISP in the Midwest over this in
alt.binaries.news-server-comparison (which is a very interesting group for
people interested in news issues).
Multi-part binaries are evil.
--
Rebecca Ore http://www.ogoense.net
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