Research Catalog

Title

Administering Usenet news servers : a comprehensive guide to planning, building, and managing Internet and Intranet news services / James E. McDermott and John E. Phillips ; with a foreword by Rich Salz.

Author

McDermott, James E.

Publication

Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley Developers Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Phillips, John E

Description

xix, 288 pages : illustrations; 24 cm +

Subject

• Usenet (Computer network)
• Client/server computing
• Internet
• Intranets (Computer networks)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-280) and index.

System Details (note)

• "System requirements: This disk was created using the High Sierra format. The binary files were created on a Sparc II using Solaris 2.5.1. All source code is included."--Disc.

Contents

Ch. 1. The Internet Today -- Ch. 2. The History of USENET News -- Ch. 3. A NewsPrimer -- Ch. 4. Bringing News Inside -- Ch. 5. The News Feed -- Ch. 6. The News Server -- Ch. 7. Network Topology -- Ch. 8. Netnews Software -- Ch. 9. Client Software -- Ch. 10. Project Plan -- Ch. 11. Setting User Expectations -- Ch. 12. Getting Help -- Ch. 13. Preliminaries -- Ch. 14. Installing the Operating System -- Ch. 15. Configuring the Operating System -- Ch. 16. Building and Installing INN -- Ch. 17. DNEWS -- Ch. 18. Acceptable Usage Policy -- Ch. 19. Service Rollout -- Ch. 20. Maintenance -- Ch. 21. Intranet Considerations -- Ch. 22. The Future of News: Trends and Extrapolations -- App. A. The Newsgroup Hierarchy -- App. B. DNEWS Technical Information -- App. C. INN Technical Information -- App. D. NNTP Information.

ISBN

• 020141967X
• 0201185423 (disc)

LCCN

97003462

OCLC

ocm36207590

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries