On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:39:19PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2004-08-10 14:41:28 -0500, Damian Menscher wrote:
[... about sending clamav updates quickly to all subscribers]
> > Anyone know if it's really feasible for us to obtain a mailserver that
> > can send out 2k emails to all (100,000?) users in a short (5-10 mins)
> > time?
>
> How about using NNTP instead of SMTP? Then the clamav server doesn't
Why use such an old protocol that isn't suited to binary transfers.
I've already mentioned this jokingly, but I was half serious: I think
setting up a bittorrent would solve a lot of the bandwidth problems.
You would need some place to get the daily.cvd.torrent file, which seems
to be about 170 bytes when I tried creating one yesterday (Small enough
to fit base64-encoded in a DNS TXT record, if you insist, but I doubt
that that is prudent to rely upon). Then you'd need a decent tracker,
or a bunch of trackers, and at least one seeder per tracker. I guess
that the current db.*.clamav.net hosts can easily host both a tracker
and a seeder.
If you then distribute a downloading clients that keeps seeding for just
1 hour (or until a preset share ratio was reached, say, 10x), you would
very quickly take a HUGE load off the download servers... and everyone
using clamav would automatically help the project by donating bandwidth
for the updates.
P2P - it's not just for downloading pirated Metallica mp3s.
HTH,
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