Option

Definition (Continued)

NNTP options (continued)

Background Posting: Causes the appliance to post NNTP articles to parent NNTP servers in the background.

Obey Cancel Control Messages: Sets the appliance to obey cancel control messages.

When the appliance gets a cancel control message, it deletes the corresponding article from the cache. You do not need to enable this option if the appliance is caching articles on demand (i.e. no feed groups exist). For all nonfeed news groups, the appliance actively polls parent NNTP servers for cancelled articles. See the Check for Cancelled Articles option, below.

Obey Newgroups Control Messages: Causes the appliance

 

to obey newgroup control messages.

 

The appliance actively polls parent NNTP servers for new

 

groups; see the Check for New Groups option, below.

 

Obey Rmgroups Control Messages: Sets the appliance to

 

obey rmgroup (remove group) control messages.

 

 

Inactivity

Defines the number of seconds that idle connections can

Timeout

remain open. This timeout should be at least three minutes.

 

 

Check for New

Defines the number of seconds that pass before the

Groups Every

appliance polls parent NNTP servers for new news groups.

 

The parent group lists change slowly. Consequently, you do

 

not need to check them frequently.

 

Use the command-line interface to list the hosts you want the

 

appliance to poll. See Configuring NNTP servers‚ on page 65

 

for more information.

 

 

Check for

Defines the number of seconds that pass before the

Cancelled

appliance polls all nonfeed news groups on the parent NNTP

Articles Every

servers for cancelled articles. Checking for new articles

 

should not be done too frequently as it involves

 

communication with the parent NNTP server.

 

 

Check Parent

Defines the number of seconds that pass before the

NNTP Server

appliance polls the parent NNTP server for new articles.

Every

 

 

 

Check Cluster

Defines the number of seconds that pass before the

Every

appliance checks the nodes on the cluster.

 

 

Check Pull

Defines the number of seconds that pass before the

Groups Every

appliance pulls (or caches) news articles from defined pull

 

groups. Use the command-line interface to designate pull

 

groups. See Configuring NNTP servers‚ on page 65 for more

 

information.

 

 

Authentication

The name of the host machine running the authentication

Server Host

server. If the host machine is the appliance, enter “local host”.

 

 

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