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ALL ABOUT HUBS
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HUB stations are voluntary twenty four hour stations
that provide solid continuous interconnections between
areas and users. Typically, a HUB will be equipped
with several radios, fairly high powered computer(s),
and a sysop with a heart of gold!
By using one frequency to connect to users and a
different one to connect to other HUBs, the HUB
station can provide the essential QRP environment.
Users with only a few watts can access a local HUB and
still have access to stations who are well out of
normal range or even operating in different
bands.
HUBs provide a mail collection point so that local
users have no need to monitor the network twenty four
hours a day. Some HUBs also provide a central
database of tutorial files, useful public domain
programs, a Network News service (NNTP), and a source
of help should it be required.
Another service often provided is Domain Name Server
(DNS). Every IP user has a "domain" file that
contains the callsigns and IP addresses of other
stations on the network. They can be very large files
and grow larger every day as IP becomes more popular.
The DNS facility allows users to keep a minimum number
of stations in their own domain files since any
unknown addresses can be retrieved from the main file
by an automatic call to the HUB. This means that the
users have access to complete and up-to-date domain
files without actually having to maintain their own.
If during installation, you elect to use a HUB station
then NOSINST will enable nearly all the facilities
that hubs can provide. However, since the NNTP
service is not always available, the NNTP setup line
in AUTOEXEC.NOS is disabled (commented out with
a # character at the start of the line). If your
local hub does have NNTP available, contact the sysop
for details of how to customise your setup to suit
local news groups and conditions.