[63275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Maloney)
Thu Oct 2 15:56:03 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:55:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>
To: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20031002152204.X33914@kod.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Only complaints I had about their service before I left were they
> wouldn't offer a filter before transmission service. It would have cut
> down on the transmit load and saved some time for my news server if they
> were filtering before it got to me.
I think they couldn't do this because it was a broadcast transmission, and
not point to point. Any pre-transmission filter would be applied to
everyone.
> It was extremely nice to take the NNTP load off of our upstream links when
> we first set it up. As I understood it, they were not doing well on binary
> feeds towards the end there though.
I think they ended up filtering posts over a certain length over a year
ago (?). They were approaching 45-50MBit/s, and when they implemented
that filter they cut it back to about 30. Not exactly a full feed, but
how much porn do you actually need? :)
We ended up supplementing their feed with a text-only feed from one of our
upstreams, just to make sure we weren't missing anything that someone
might actually care about (i.e. non-porn).
Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications
