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- From: msp@pos.apana.org.au (Mark Purcell)
- Newsgroups: aus.news
- Subject: How are duplicate articles handled in Australia?
- Summary: To broadcast or single feed?
- Keywords: Path: Message-ID: news feeds
- Message-ID: <0g2PrA3MBh107h@pos.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 10:48:52 +1000
- Distribution: aus
- Organization: Private site
- Lines: 58
-
- Due to a bizarre network topology locally generated news
- from this site can reach the Internet via sites in
- Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. This has proven to be a
- desirable arrangement as it provides higher reliability
- that posted articles will actually make it out to the
- rest of the world, as sites can be down, links can be
- down etc. This is also the suggested way of providing
- high reliability in the 'How to become a USENET site' FAQ.
-
- This also has the effect that sites which are connected
- to my site see my locally generated news earlier than
- they normally would and generally wouldn't receive those
- articles via their main news feed.
-
- Of course this will generate a number of duplicate
- articles with the same Message-ID: with different initial
- Path: headers. My understanding of the news transport is
- that when multiple of these articles arrive at the same
- site, that site will only process the first of the
- articles and will only ever pass on one copy of this
- article. With the effect that all sites only see one
- copy of the article, and a couple of sites see multiple
- copies but only process one copy of the article. This of
- course saving multiple copies of the article appearing on
- all sites and making this broadcast 'flooding' type of
- news transport desirable.
-
- I believe that Internet news transport does things even
- smarter than this and only passes on articles which
- aren't on the receiving machine, checked via the Path: &
- Message-ID: headers. Thus these machines, which is where
- the collisions would generally occur only ever see one
- copy of the article and only pass it on to those sites
- which don't already have the article.
-
- My question is this. Is this broadcast 'flooding' type
- news transport safe and/or desirable to do in Australia?
-
- Mark
-
-
-
- >From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- >Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.announce.newusers,news.answers
- >Subject: How to become a USENET site
- >Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu, news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
- >
- [Stuff deleted]
- >
- > In order to make your machine a USENET site, you need to find other
- >sites on the USENET that are willing to feed you news and/or mail.
- >You might want to locate more than one such site if you want higher
- >reliability.
- >
-
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- Mark Purcell, 62/25 Market Street, SYDNEY NSW 2000. (02) 283 5598
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