Mark Sullivan writes:

I found a nifty add-on for ubh. It's a traffic shaper which is super handy for those of us that like to leave ubh running almost all the time. I was having serious problems with ubh sucking all my bandwidth, so this was a great find.

Here's the URL for the traffic shaper:

http://www.stewart.com.au/ip_relay

Now all my .ubhrc-xxx files have these lines:

NNTPHOST=my-local-hostname
NNTPPORT=1119
          

And here's a little script to fire up the whole shebang using "screen":

#!/bin/sh

screen -m -d -S news ./ip_relay.pl -b 10000 1119:news.your.news.provider.here.com:119
screen -m -d -S ubh ./ubh-wrapper.pl

screen -ls

To use ip_relay, you will need to upgrade to the latest version of ubh which contains the NNTPPORT modification, available from the CVS repository.