
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. |
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Inactivity | Defines the number of seconds that idle connections can |
Timeout | remain open. This timeout should be at least three minutes. |
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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 |
| appliance to poll. See Configuring NNTP servers‚ on page 65 |
| for more information. |
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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. |
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Check Parent | Defines the number of seconds that pass before the |
NNTP Server | appliance polls the parent NNTP server for new articles. |
Every |
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Check Cluster | Defines the number of seconds that pass before the |
Every | appliance checks the nodes on the cluster. |
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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 |
| groups. See Configuring NNTP servers‚ on page 65 for more |
| information. |
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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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