PLDT Nttp server??? Meron ba?

[jakcfrost]

Does pldt mydsl have an nttp server? If so whats the address thanks :-)

[directX]

what is nttp? I only know ntp - network time protocol server.

[Eric]

Maybe he means NNTP or Network News Transport Protocol, otherwise known as Usenet, one of the oldest online bulletin board systems.

[Edited on 5-2-2005 by Eric]

[Maccess]

Yep that would be USENET. The real Internet for afficionados.

You can find more information here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/usenet-help.html

I'm not sure if PLDT still has one. Most ISPs don't, since the current generation of Internet users know only the WEB (and bittorrent) :no:.

The best would be to subscribe to a commercial usenet server, but you can also find free usenet servers here:

http://www.nyx.net/~bkraft/

or you can use this free server here:

http://www.teranews.com/

(Registration required)

[jakcfrost]

sorry about that, i did mean NNTP, its supposed to be faster than bittorrent

[hoho]

Originally posted by jakcfrost
sorry about that, i did mean NNTP, its supposed to be faster than bittorrent

Like Eric mentioned, NNTP is the Network News Transport Protocol. It is not anything like bittorrent at all. It would be closer to email than anything.

NNTP is what used to be what boards like PhilMUG and PinoyMac are now. A collection of topics where people post articles, such as this post. At I-Manila, if I recall correctly, we used to have an NNTP server for subscribers. Not sure if JBD and Dave_D still have it around. It wasn't a full feed of the Usenet though.

There are a wide variety of topics, from soc.culture.filipino, who's topic is, the Filipino Culture, where anything and everything about Filipinos is topical for that Usenet group, to comp.lang.java, for Java Programming. Almost any topic under the sun that you can think of, had a Usenet group.

There are also groups for other stuff, that contain non-text data, the "alt.binaries.*" groups, which are used to distribute UUENCODEd binary files, like photos, free software, etc.

You will need a News Reader application to access public NNTP servers. Look here for information on some of those applications.

Check out DejaNews, before Google swallowed them up, Deja News provided an NNTP feed via a web interface. Maccess has also provided a bunch of links on his post as well.

Hope that helped.
H

[Maccess]

Usenet isn't about speed. There is more stuff on usenet.

Usenet was one of the original services in the early days of the Internet., ca. late 1970s.

Like eMail (POP3 and SMTP), Usenet does not require a live connection to the Internet. In the early days, Usenet servers, usually located in universities or large corporations, would dial up a nearby server higher up in the heirarchy (e.g. Ateneo server dials Ph.net server), exchange posts (which were mostly text), then sign off.

The higher level server would then dial another server in a nearby country (e.g a server in HK) and exchange posts.

and so it continues until each post has propagated throughout the network of usenet servers. TCP/IP is not necessary for this process.

The protocol for copying is called UUCP, or unix to unix copy protocol. On UUCP, runs the Network News Transfer Protocol.

The whole network is called UUnet, but that is now also the name of a company which originally provided backbone services for Usenet.

All this new stuff, like BitTorrent, Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, are peer to peer sharing protocols that require full time connections.

[Eric]

There are currently about 65,000 newsgroups on Usenet from groups discussing obscure topics to groups specific to serving downloadable binaries (software, books, photos, music... you name it). AFAIK, PLDT's service does not include access to NNTP servers, unlike before with Infocom (c. 1996). I've been subscribed to commercial Usenet provider, Giganews for almost 4 years--no complaints so far.

Check out their site for rates.

[Edited on 5-5-2005 by Eric]

[jakcfrost]

thanks guys, figured it out already, downloaded Unison, using Usenet for binary downloading, this seems more reliable than bittorrent, been able to download some video files already, only difference is there are additional procedures to getting the video files to work.