Re: Pyzor server(s) ...

[Marc G. F. <sc...@hu...>]

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- --On Monday, November 27, 2006 21:31:53 -0500 Robert Praetorius <rm...@ii...> 
wrote:

>         I've also done some thinking about building a
>         distributed pyzor and agree that it's the obvious
>         next step but don't have "ideas on how to accomplish
>         a distributed pyzor relatively easily"*

Actually, its very simple "in theory" ... all you need is to change the 
communications protocol slightly to distinguish between a server or client 
packet ... basically, if a client reports to the server, then that server needs 
to then report the same thing to the other servers, but "as a server" ... when 
a server reports to a server, that is the end of the line ...

I was just thinking about it, and the best paradigm, I think, for this is 
Usenet news ... each server would be a 'registered peer' off of another one ...

Let's say, for instance, that we have a server in NA at Site A ... if I wanted 
to add a pyzor server onto that system, I would talk to the admin @ Site A 
about connecting to him ... connection would be a simple as a servers.txt file 
that contains the hostname of the remote server ...

When Site A receives a report, it auto gets forwarded down to its 'children' 
... if my site receives a report, I would forward it up to Site A ...

Now, Site A knows that it received the report from me, so wouldn't send it back 
to me ...

Now, in theory, each server would only need max two connections ... an upstream 
and a downstream, but for redundancy, and speed, more then one would be 
preferred ...

So, as an example, let's say we have a single server in: US, Panama (my 
servers), EU, Australia ... at a minimum, you'd want something like:

Australia <-> US <-> EU
               ^
               |
               v
            Panama

To improve redundancy, you could add links between Australia <-> EU, AU <-> PA 
and PA <-> EU, but they wouldn't be required ...

EU could then get a link from Africa, while Australia maybe from Korean, PA 
from Brazil, etc ...

Within US, you could break things down add add regional servers, etc, etc ...

A large ISP could then run their own Pyzor server, but as part of the 
distributed network ...

Its theory, and simple one at that

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