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Getting an NNTP Feed from ClariNet

If you get a direct NNTP feed from ClariNet, or a delayed backup feed, you will need to give us the ability to connect and transfer news to your news server.

Tell us the name of the news server or servers you will be receiving feeds on.
Enable it so that ClariNet's machines can transfer news to your servers, and ideally also read our news from your servers. We encourage use to enable read access, since it lets us check that you are getting your feed properly and that you have the right newsgroup list, as well as debug many other problems. You need not let us read non-ClariNet news.
With care, feed only the unmoderated group clari.net.talk back to news.clari.net, but don't use nntplink.

For all these steps, the control files are usually in the "news library" directory, often /usr/lib/news on most systems. Depending on your software, follow the steps in one of these guides.

If you have routers that filter incoming TCP/IP connections, be sure our network is allowed to make NNTP connections to your server(s). You will need to allow connections from our machines individually, even if you're using the newsfeeder address in your hosts.nntp file.

You must make sure we can E-mail you about problems. A technical contact should be defined in your customer records. We advise that you also create both the "usenet" and "news" aliases on the feed machine and your mail E-mail domain, and have them point to the right admin, if you can make sure you change them when people change jobs.

A system under development will send certain NNTP error messages to you if they reflect problems on your system you should know about. If you get messages you don't want, you'll be able to ask us to not send them.

Reverse feed:

You will want to feed the group clari.net.talk back to us. It is unmoderated. You can feed it to news.clari.net. However, the following rules apply:

You must contact us to enable your access to this server.
Feed only clari.net.talk, not the rest of the clari hierarchy.
Do NOT use nntplink without giving it a short timeout. Sites using nntplink will have access disabled. We can't have hundreds of sites keeping open nntplink sessions on our systems just to handle irregular postings in the clari.net.talk group. Try an option like -C 60 if you must use nntplink.

Other Notes

Read the description of our feed system so that you will know in advance what errors may occur in feeds, and how we will E-mail you about them. You can also check your feed status on the web!
Browse the rest of the ClariNet Technical Info menu for information on all technical aspects of ClariNet.
Consider adding support for Streaming NNTP to improve efficiency of feeds on some links. This is particularly valuable if you have slow, long-latency internet links and/or are outside North America.
If you have two NNTP servers, reasonably well peered, let us know and we will have your two feeds go to two servers.