Measuring reader traffic

[Patrick Schreurs]

On Mon, 3 May 2004 divya at avnika.com wrote:

> The issue I am trying to capture is with regards to capacity planning
> and high availability. I want to understand at what point a server will
> become unusable and if it does, how do I "fail-over" to another host
> in such a way to not have to make all the users re-configure their
> newsgroup settings.

You can use a frontend nntp server, like nntpswitch
(www.nntpswitch.org) or dreader from diablo. These
frontends can switch to a backup server when the primary
server becomes unavailable.

Patrick
News-Service.com