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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Randle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 2:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bigevil update with flavor.Adult. And info on tonight. > > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 08:16, Jonathan Tai wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 02:11, Alex Pleiner wrote: > > > * Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-24 20:10]: > > > > Any chance of mirroring some of those other .cf files found > > > > on merchantsoverseas.com, on alex.zeitform.de? > > > > > > I have already considered offering Chris a mirror for his whole site, > > > but haven't discussed this with him yet. The problem is that we have > to > > > pay for traffic, so I want to monitor the traffic generated by the > > > bigevil.cf mirror for some weeks. If it stays below a painful limit, I > > > would be glad to give further support. (There are guys with phasers > > > behind me, too. ;-) > > > > > > > Have you guys thought of using round-robin DNS? sare.org is taken, but > > maybe sarules.org? > > > > We could have www.sarules.org be a web page that links to all the rules > > at update.sarules.org/sarules/download/. This would be the only server > > that needs VirutalHost support. > > > > update.sarules.org would be round-robin DNS that rotates between 5-10 > > mirror servers. The requirements for a mirror would be pretty low: T1 > > line or greater, reliable, the ability to create a /sarules/download > > directory, wget, and the ability to add a cron job. The ability to > > create a VirtualHost isn't required, since only the /sarules/download > > directory would be accessed (and never the web root /). > > > > Automatic-update-script writers could just hardcode the > > update.sarules.org/sarules/update URL into their scripts, and we can > > add/remove mirrors simply by updating the DNS. > > I would volunteer the ISP I manage to host a mirror if this is > implemented. We have plenty of bandwidth. > > -Bill Randle > SysAdmin > OutlawNet, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ======================================================================== > Pain free spam & virus protection by: www.mailsecurity.net.au > Forward undetected SPAM to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ======================================================================== ======================================================================== This message has been scanned for spam & viruses by Mail Sleuth. To report SPAM forward the message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Sleuth www.mailsleuth.com.au ========================================================================
