From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2005-11-22 00:47:37
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On Nov 21, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote: > Craig Hughes escreveu: >> A couple of folks have replied now both on-list and off -- if you are >> interested, please could you give me some details on your internet >> set up, etc. to make it easier to pick the best home for these >> things? Ideally if we send them out, we'd like them to be going >> places which have nice solid, stable, allowed-to-run-servers-on-it >> type internet connections at places like universities or companies >> whose network admin staff aren't going to power cycle the thing >> randomly because they don't know what it is, or where your cable >> provider is going to start blocking ports because it looks like >> you're overusing your "unlimited use" connection. > I'm the IT manager of our company here, we have two facilities with > independent, always-on internet connections, linked to different > backbones. I'll have to choose one of the facilities, but the setup is > almost the same (E1). The only restriction I'll have to enforce is > putting them behind a firewall I manage myself. I can leave some > incoming ports mapped to ssh or whatever, but I'm considering to > enforce > a very strict *outgoing* policy, as is done i.e. in the > sourceforge.net's compile farm. Any objections? :) Nope, that is a great answer :) I like the geographic distribution concept of locating one of these things in Brazil actually. Probably one in Europe and the 3rd in North America somewhere would be a nice distribution. C |