Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 02:57:28 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: WANTED: mail-relays in north america ! Message-ID: <13823.833425048@critter.tfs.com>
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The email load on freebsd.org is still too high for our little setup, so we would like to find four to eight mail-relays to share the load of the "heavy" domains: .net .com .org .us .gov .mil What we need is: 1. a machine, we prefer FreeBSD, obviously :-) 2. that is well connected (Min T1) (needed BW is a couple of kbyte/sec) 3. has plenty of space in /var (> 40 Mb free) 4. is up 24h/24h 5. has some cpu cycles to burn. 6. is accepted by the owner of the machine, facility and net to be used for this purpose. What we want to do: Make an mx-record that points to your machine, so that you machine will receive some share of the emails to domains mentioned above and deliver them to the recipients. Why ? Because we can deliver one copy to your machine, which will then deliver 1 copy to each the 10 destination machines, thus saving bandwidth at freebsd.org. What happens if your machine goes down ? Some mail will be stuck on your machine, but freebsd.org will just deliver new emails to other machines in this group of mail-relays. Is there any software to install ? No. We rely on sendmail as it comes right out of the box. Is there any configuration to deal with ? No. Is there any extra work for me ? No. Do I get anything for it ? No. (We will mention you on our web-side and in the handbook, but that's all.) Yes, I can help you! Send email to mailgeeks@freebsd.org, please tell us a little about the machine, its net connection, who has approved this use, which of the domains listed above you would be willing to serve and a traceroute to freebsd.org from the machine. Thanks in advance! Poul-Henning
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