From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Dec 9 13:34:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA08014 for hubs-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 13:34:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hubs) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA07993; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 13:34:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA02169; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:34:17 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:34:16 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: David Dawes cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm , "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: ftp mirror and mail relay changes at au.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19971209225028.13419@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, David Dawes wrote: > One surprise (to me) in the figures was the amount of incoming traffic > that appears to be associated with our relaying of FreeBSD list email > to .au sites. This is the only significant source of incoming traffic > that I can attribute to that particular IP address. The total for those > three months is about 2.4 GBytes (and represents about 10% of our total > incoming traffic for that period). Does anyone else have figures for > this sort of thing, and if so, does this seem reasonable? Anyway, a > consequence of this is that I can't continue doing this relaying. Can > someone else volunteer to take over as the primary MX for > mail.au.freebsd.org? The current relays are: > > mail.au.freebsd.org. 12H IN MX 0 www.au.freebsd.org. > mail.au.freebsd.org. 12H IN MX 10 gecko2.dialix.com. I suggest someone approaches Telstra Internet, since they are the ones who are charging 19c/MB - they won't mind relaying because it will save them money (albeit a very small amount). One other possibility which is probably not favoured is to set up a compressed tunnel from hub to usyd.edu.au. This can be done with /usr/sbin/ppp or with ssh port forwarding. This is likely to halve the volume. And thirdly, what about spreading the au load around, so there is more than one MX 0 host? Danny