Okay, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having heard the whining about my apparently unpopular policy WRT netblocks in certain filthy, spammer-ridden Third World shitholes that should be nuked from orbit to protect the Internet from their miserable spams, SSH scans, and generally bogus traffic, and after searching my soul to determine that a) yes, I would like the OpenBSD Metastore to be visible to these unwashed masses even if they do harbor poorly-socialized wankers who abuse their (and my) bandwidth, and that b) no, I am not going to change my policy about which netblocks I accept traffic from, I have decided that a compromise may be in order.
I'm in the process of registering a domain name for this little project. With a little judicious DNS cooking, the use of my much-maligned cb netblock script, and a little secret sauce, it will be possible to RR this and distribute the hosting with preferences established by country (from TW, the site will go to the Taiwanese hosted version, etc.), meaning that the only issue is finding other people to host mirrors of it. The problem is going to be synchronization of the database; I'm working on that. While kit updates will be centralized and pushed out, dealing with comments is going to be, uh, "interesting". I may deal with that by simply refusing to do so, making comments local-only. Any suggestions about the best way to deal with that are welcome. >;-> This has the side-effect of making localization somewhat easier, for those who want to track prices locally and/or make descriptions available in the local language. What about it? Anybody out there want to host a copy of this? You, Mr. Holop, since you've been the most vocal so far? How about Rod "Lips" Wankworth or whatever your name is? Any other detractors willing to donate some bandwidth? Since there are no single "big" pipes stepping up to the plate, it seems to me that something similar can be synthesized from a large number of small pipes, and that this may in fact be a superior solution. Reply to misc@, if you're from one of the "Forgotten Lands" I won't see it for the obvious reason. It'll take me a little while to figure out the best way to set this up in any event, so it's not going to be instant (give me a week or so to get my shit together and my code worked out). -- (c) 2005 Unscathed Haze via Central Plexus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am Chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are Free. -Eris Big Brother is watching you. Learn to become Invisible. |-------- Your message must be this wide to ride the Internet. --------|
