From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 5 07:58:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA13227 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 07:58:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from jhome.DIALix.COM (root@jhome.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA13222 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 07:58:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peter@localhost) by jhome.DIALix.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA09387; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 23:58:40 +0800 (WST) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 23:58:35 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm To: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Looking for some sites in *.au to help with FreeBSD mail.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk For a few weeks, one of the machines on the network of the company that I work for, was exploding all *.au mail from freefall to all the australian recipients. This worked really well, until the machine (which is unattended) had a hiccup and went off the air for a few hours early one morning, and nobody was available to reboot it. The result was that all FreeBSD mail to Australia was delayed by about 4 hours. :-( The traffic load is pretty light, and was comfortably handled by an extremely busy 486 on a small network link (shared small ISDN). I'm not going to restart doing it, unless I can get two or three other sites to share the load and also act as "insurance" in case the machine is cut off again. I'm also uncomfortable with the fact that the machine is very geographically remote to the majority of users in *.AU. The east<->west coast internet backbone link has been down for up to 36 hours in the past. :-( Any volunteers? Reply to me off the list and I can give you more detail. I'm looking for another 1 or 2 sites to share the primary role with my machine, and perhaps a couple of others that will act only as backups in case all the primaries are unreachable or busy. Basically, all that is needed is a machine with a stable sendmail system. No configuration changes are needed whatsoever. All that is needed is cpu time, some disk space (for the queue) and some (mainly outgoing) network bandwidth. -Peter