Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:36:19 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, olivas@digiflux.org Subject: Back-up DNS, mail and WWW servers for FreeBSD PR site Message-ID: <200301262236.19443.will@unfoldings.net>
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Hi, Earlier today, Stacy Olivas and I decided that it would be a good thing t= o set=20 up a site to handle PR, specifically for journalists and less technical t= ype=20 users. We've sent e-mails to some relevant people in charge and are hopin= g=20 for the official blessing, but even if we don't get it, we'd set up the s= ite=20 in an unofficial capacity anyway. I'm looking for people willing to act as back-up DNS, mail exchanger and = WWW=20 servers. We will be load balancing WWW requests with a round robin DNS=20 resolver. We have already sent out private requests to contacts in Europe= ,=20 the UK and the US for servers there, and have one server in Spain and one= in =20 South Africa which will be hosting DNS, mail and WWW. At this time, we are specifically looking for one more back-up DNS in the= =20 Asia-Pacific region. Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, South Korea,=20 anywhere in the general area with good uptimes and reasonable bandwidth w= ould=20 be wonderful. People willing to act as back-up MX (mail exchanger) servers. This is a l= ow=20 traffic job, all that is required is that your server be willing to relay= =20 mail for the domain, and forward it later when the primary MX is back up.= =20 Mail will only ever arrive if all other backup MX servers listed before y= ours=20 is down, so it's highly unlikely that this will ever be needed, but we're= =20 taking no chances. All that is required here is some hard drive space on = /var=20 to handle a few MB of mail for a few hours if the need be. People willing to host WWW space. This would require a web server with su= pport=20 for PHP4, and a MySQL database accessable from the web server. Anyone wit= h a=20 nice big pipe and a strong server is very welcome, we want to get as many= =20 servers as we can, to be as prepared as we can for the posibility <wishfu= l=20 thinking> of being slashdotted one day </wishful thinking>. Anybody anywh= ere=20 in the world that is willing to help would be welcomed. We'd be willing to place small rotating adds for any project, ISP or=20 organization that donates any of these resources to the project, and a st= atic=20 add on each mirror for the entity that donates the mirror (as with exim.o= rg) Anybody offering to help out with one or more of these services is most=20 welcome, the help will be greatly appreciated. Please contact me if you are interested in lending a hand. Kind Regards Will --=20 Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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