Re: A few things

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Catching up on backlogged mail... sorry for the delay in replying to this:
> 
> 
> > 1) Jason- Did you turn off relaying in Qmail?  I'd hate to find out that
> 
> Yes.  Relaying is disabled in Qmail.

Yeah.
 
> > eat bandwidth and CPU.  I think we should have NaviSite limit ICMP to
> > those hosts/networks which we come from.  I would take the existing list
> 
> Agreed.  Makes sense to me.  Same hosts I mailed ya before... my access is working
> fine.

'K.
 
> > 3) Virtual Hosts.  We've got a lot.  Do we need this many?  Should
> > "linuxkb.org" = "www.linuxkb.org" ?  It doesn't currently.  I assume
> > "admin" is for the administration pages (CGI's, documentation, etc) for
> > the site.  This should be bound to the loopback device and we should use
> > the ssh hack to access it.
> 
> Yes.  We need dev, tst, and www (linuxkb.org can = www.linuxkb.org... I just didn't
> do it that way at the time).  I have no problem binding admin to loopback... can ya
> refresh me on the ssh hack?  I lost that mail that described it when I blew away my

ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 vodka.linuxkb.org

Then point your brower to http://localhost:8080/ and ssh will forward it
to the loopback address port 80 of vodka.

> /home :(.  I want to keep devel.linuxkb.org seperate from admin.linuxkb.org as
> devel will be publicly available development information eventually...  thoughts?

OK, makes sense.  

> > 4) Ht://dig DB.  How many?  One for each CVS module?  One that's shared?
> > One for production one for development trees?  (I'm only talking about the
> > actual tables and the content therin.)
> 
> One for each cvs module.  tst, dev, and www.

OK.

> > 5) MySQL DB.  Same questions.
> 
> Same answer... I'm working on implimenting the other two... the DB for linuxkb.org
> has been implimented.

fine.
 
> I have no issues with this.  I personally won't store mail on the box... I'm
> forwarding all mine to my other box... but as long as it's local readers only and
> we open up no additional ports... I say it's a non-issue.

Agreed.

[snip]

> Yup.  No problem with that either... encouraged actually.  Web space for GPL
> software... great... we can't be acting as a mirror for gnome or anything ;) but
> any GPL we write... sure.  Unless of course one of us is the author of the next
> greatest thing in Linux and the server starts getting HAMMERED with downloads... in
> that case we'd obviously need to re-locate the package :).  Watch out... Dan is
> just that kinda guy :)

Great.


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