RE: Pyzor server(s) ...

[Jerry W. <jer...@gm...>]

Hello,

The company I work for (an ISP/CLEC) presently provides public mirror
services for two of the more popular blacklisting services; we have several
years long working relationships with both maintainers. I'd like to also
extend the offer of a pyzor mirror.  It would reside on a server in one of
our datacenters in Eastern PA.

I'd just need a little data on usage statistics.  Root access (if necessary)
could also be provided.

Thoughts?


*Pyzor server(s) ...*
From: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hu...> - 2006-02-06 10:59

 Hi ...

    Since pyzor is pretty much the only viable 'clearinghouse' still, with
 everyone else starting to limit who can make use of it, I'm wondering what
 it would take to improve Pyzor ...

    The big thing I've seen on the lists is the timeouts issue, and, from
 what I can tell, the problem is that its all running on a single server
 right now ...

    Unfortunately, python isn't my language, so doing any coding on that
 side I'll be useless for, but I've been looking at how clamav is dealing
 with the virus signature updates and am wondering if its somehow possible
 to apply what they are doing to pyzor itself ...

    Now, granted, I have no idea how large the pyzord.db file is/gets, so,
 of course, this becomes a very big limiting factor, but with the clamav
 folks, all they do is use rsync to pass around the database itself to
 'slave servers' ...

    The idea is to have one master server (db.pyzor.org) that all reports
 are submitted to, and several slave servers (db.xy.pyzor.org) that handle
 the check requests ... where xy would be a country code ... right off the
 bat, I could easily provide a db.us.pyzor.org and db.pa.pyzor.org server
 ...

    The only thing that would (I think) have to change in the pyzor code
 itself is allow for a master vs slave scenario in the config files, so
 what when discover is done, they get set appropriately, but I can't think
 that that would be too hard ...

    Frank, about what size is the pyzord.db file?  How small does it shrink
 if compressed?

    Just my two cents, and an offer of server/network resources ...


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 Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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Jerry Wilborn
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