Network Administration & Management

Topic

Network News Transfer Protocol

Presented By

Daniyal Khan(0047)

Network News Transfer Protocol

NNTP Stands for Network News Transfer Protocol

Uses a reliable stream-based transmission for the distribution, posting and retrieval of news articles

It provides extra fast transmission by using less expensive connections.

Characteristics

Privacy

Security

Reliability

Maintainability

Ease Of Use

Application Of NNTP Server-to-server exchanges: In this exchange, a

server requests to another server for the latest articles or move-forward new articles to it.

User-to-server connections: Users operate news readers, incorporated with most Web browsers. First user connects with a server, located at Internet service provider, and then downloads a list of accessible newsgroups.

Conclusion It is concluded, that NNTP has been confirmed a

successful protocol for exchanging ideas between people.

Needs improvements

Due to tremendous growth in the field of internet a lot of people have been demanding to find ways to use the delivery of messages over NNTP.

Nowadays newsgroup channels are using NNTP protocol for the successful delivery of their news articles.

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