Who should attend: Netnews server administrators who use or wish to use INN (InterNet News). Participants should be capable UNIX system administrators with experience in setting up new server hosts, managing large file systems, and building programs from freely-available source code.

What you will learn: Basic installation and management of a netnews server using INN.

INN, written by Rich Salz, is the most widely-used software system implementing the NNTP protocol. After completing this tutorial, you'll be able to create and maintain INN server hosts, including reader support, transport (netnews peering) administration, and installation of source code patches to INN.

Topics include:

- Hardware requirements
- Fetching, building and installing INN
- Transport servers vs. reader servers
- Article transfer vs. article replication
- innxmit, nntplink, and innfeed
- Expire, multiple spindles
- Reports and monitoring
- Troubleshooting

James Brister is one of the maintainers of INN, and the author of the innfeed transfer utility. James has been a senior UNIX system programmer and administrator for more than 10 years, and is currently a senior software engineer at the Internet Software Consortium.

David Lawrence is one of the current maintainers of INN and has been a highly visible member of the Usenet community for over a decade. His contributions include involvement in many news software projects and service as the moderator of news.announce newgroups for the past six years. Co-author of the recently released book, Managing Usenet, David is a member of the technical staff at Vixie Laboratories and the Internet Software Consortium.

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