Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading

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1 total messages Started by ntmtv!harthc@ame Wed, 09 Sep 1992 19:23

Author: ntmtv!harthc@ame
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 19:23

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>Apart from efficiency the main argument that has been used here
>against NFS is that news is currently on our gateway machine, and
>if we ran NFS on that machine it would be a major security hole.
>I don't know how serious a worry this is.

Don't forget that wonderful feature of NFS when partitions are mounted
read/write (such as the case where you have to mount the news batch
directory read/write for users to post articles). Don't know about
other machines, but on Sun's, if you loose the server, the client
hangs indefinitely (I was told at one time that NFS writes have
higher interrupt priority than mouse clicks, so I do mean complete
screen/window lockup). That alone makes NNTP worthwhile at our site.
It was very interesting when our old NFS-moounted newsserver went down
and 300+ machines lab-wide suddenly quit responding--all for a marginally
(management-wise) supported USENET feed. I'd strongly recommend NNTP-only.

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