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 to set up a site to handle PR, specifically for journalists and less technical type users. We've sent e-mails to some relevant people in charge and are hoping for the official blessing, but even if we don't get it, we'd set up the site in an unofficial capacity anyway. I'm looking for people willing to act as back-up DNS, mail exchanger and WWW servers. We will be load balancing WWW requests with a round robin DNS resolver. We have already sent out private requests to contacts in Europe, the UK and the US for servers there, and have one server in Spain and one in 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 Asia-Pacific region. Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, South Korea, anywhere in the general area with good uptimes and reasonable bandwidth would be wonderful. People willing to act as back-up MX (mail exchanger) servers. This is a low traffic job, all that is required is that your server be willing to relay mail for the domain, and forward it later when the primary MX is back up. Mail will only ever arrive if all other backup MX servers listed before yours is down, so it's highly unlikely that this will ever be needed, but we're taking no chances. All that is required here is some hard drive space on /var 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 support for PHP4, and a MySQL database accessable from the web server. Anyone with a nice big pipe and a strong server is very welcome, we want to get as many servers as we can, to be as prepared as we can for the posibility <wishful thinking> of being slashdotted one day </wishful thinking>. Anybody anywhere 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 organization that donates any of these resources to the project, and a static add on each mirror for the entity that donates the mirror (as with exim.org) Anybody offering to help out with one or more of these services is most welcome, the help will be greatly appreciated. Please contact me if you are interested in lending a hand. Kind Regards Will -- 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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