[488] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
One last (hopefully!) administrative note.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Sat Nov 11 04:30:11 1995
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 04:05:41 -0500
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
I am now routing the security lists' traffic for several domains through
"regional exploders." This should improve delivery time somewhat; I can
already see the queues here clearing more quickly, thanks to the CPU
cycles donated by Roger Wolff (in The Netherlands) Alex Yuriev (in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) and Matti Aarnio (in Finland).
Alex's system is sharing the delivery of U.S. sites with the NRAO
systems, Roger's is handling The Netherlands, and Matti's is now the hub
for the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic states, Poland, and Russia.
If anyone would like to volunteer their system for forwarding to the
following regions, it would be much appreciated. I am breaking things
down into groups by region, taking into account the number of
subscribers in each general region.
Germany (lots of subscribers)
U.K./British Isles (lots here too)
Canada
Australia/New Zealand
France
Italy
South Africa/Mozambique
Spain/Portugal
Central Europe (e.g. Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Balkan/Southeastern Europe region (e.g. Romania, the former Yugoslav
republics, Ukraine, Armenia, Greece)
The Middle East (e.g. Israel, Turkey)
South America (the continent)
Eastern and Southeastern Asia (e.g. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong
Kong, Singapore)
(Regional hubs don't necessarily need to cover all countries listed for
a region. There are also many countries that I left out, some of which
there is no reason to set up a hub for due to low subscribership.)
If you have both a decently fast link to the U.S. and good connectivity
within your region (i.e. sane network routes within your own country and
to neighboring ones, without going by way of Antarctica and the like),
as well as a relatively fast, stable system (that is always up), all you
have to do is tell me it's available--no changes should need be made to
your system at all if you run sendmail or something similar; I just add
a rule to my sendmail.cf file here that says:
R$*<@$+.domain.>$* $#esmtp $@router.host $:$1<@$2.domain.>$3
and the new "exploder" is in action. It's doubtful that the exploder
system(s) will even notice the change.
Thanks!
--Up.
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Jeff Uphoff - systems/network admin. | juphoff@nrao.edu
National Radio Astronomy Observatory | jeff.uphoff@linux.org
Charlottesville, VA, USA | http://linux.nrao.edu/~juphoff/
