Re: Advice on configuring peers and newsgroups in INN2

On 20.07.25, Anonymous wrote:
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 > This does help me better understand what is under the hood. Yet it leaves me with more questions.
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 > So far it looks to me like a peer can send anything it wants to my node, and I have to filter everything to accept and store only the groups I want. A bad configuration on another peer could chuck a lot of unwanted bandwidth down my pipe. Or am I missing something?
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 > I was hoping to have a set it and forget it so that when I add any new peer then my peer will only offer and pull the groups in my list of desired groups. But then I see my peer needs to honor the configuration requested by the remote peer.
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??? I dont understand your way of thinking... ???
 > Is it possible to configure a INN2 peering in a reader mode configuration so it connects to a remote peer and requests articles? I think that would solve any potential bandwidth problems if it is possible.
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you can use "sucknews?"
Peering is a form of trust but you are right.
A peer can send you shit and you filter what peers send you anyways.
You'd have to run filters with sucknews too.
A server needs monitoring. Setup and forget will result in exitus.
You are heavily overthinking this: 'a lot of unwanted bandwidth'
sure... but what is your definition of 'a lot'?
Daily usenet text traffic is about +- 30 Megabyte per day.
Or that's what i get. 1 Gig per month...
Why you have panic with bandwidth?
how many teRRRRabytes you think you need for active peering?
I repeat: 1 GB in a full month. We're only peering text.
Every mobile prepaid data tarif can handle this.
Some carry binary groups but if you don't want them
Nobody will send them to you. as long as you behave :D
Would not make sense anyways if you setup cleanfeed defaults.
But another question is: why should anyone do this?
there is no gain in putting your server down as long as you behave :D
If your filters are setup right it just declines and that's it.
If you receive garbage from your peers...
You can just depeer your peer...
If you choose your peers right i don't see this problem.
You can always post here if you have problems with a peer.
Peers (other servers) don't ask or pull groups.
They just send whats set in their rules that you defined before.
I run my feeders with whooping 1 GB storage for articles
and that holds about a month of small articles less than 16K...
another 1GB buffer for articles between 64-128K is at 18% (182 MBytes)
and another with 1GB for articles 128-256K is only at 13% (137 MBytes)
I guess most phones have 128 GB by default today...
If you want some test I can just setup peering with you and you can try?
Don't think tooo much.
It's all much easier when you are connected and see messages coming in!
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Billy G. (go-while)