Re: max requests a celeron web server can handle

2004-07-20 Thread Volker Tanger
Greetings! On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:24:12 +0200 Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 19 July 2004 19.22, Shannon R. wrote: > > I've been googling around for recorded info on how many static files > > per second a [...] Apache web server can serve before it sta

Re: [mailinglists] Re: Trusting Backports and unofficial Repositories

2004-07-20 Thread Philipp
Hi Craig, > > 1) Are you using unofficial repositories on production servers ? > > no, i run unstable on several dozen production servers without a problem. i > find that doing that is an excellent way of both keeping software up-to-date > and also keeping several months ahead of the script-kiddie

Re: max requests a celeron web server can handle

2004-07-20 Thread emilio brambilla
hello, Volker Tanger wrote: If you're looking for a high-performance webserver mainly for static files, others than apache could be quite interesting for you, especially thttpd, mathopd and Zeus - see http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/benchmarks.html also note that apache 2.0 is much bett

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-20 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:49:26PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Michelle Konzack said: > > Am 2004-07-19 10:01:06, schrieb Russell Coker: > > >On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:59, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >Thinking of the expected 50KB/sec download rate

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:39, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Other people get >10MB/s. I've benchmarked some of my machines at 9MB/s. > > I do not belive it ! http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9704.1/0257.html See the above message from David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Recommendations for redundant server esp. regarding shared storage?

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:25, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shared storage would be neat as we could do real load balancing on > POP3/IMAP servers as well but has anybody a recommendation for a In my experience neither POP3 nor IMAP uses any significant amount of CPU time. Therefor

Re: max requests a celeron web server can handle

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:15, "Shannon R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the machine will be hosting 1 website only. with about 3,000 static html > files and about 5,000 image files (from 3kb to 100kb. and no, it's not a > pornsite, but a bike enthusiast site) > > so what do you guys think? any ballpar

Christian Hammers

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
(host mail3av.westend.com[212.117.79.67] said: 450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 300 seconds... (in reply to RCPT TO command)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian's mail server is broken. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages h

Re: Christian Hammers

2004-07-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:06:01 +1000, Russell Coker writes: >(host mail3av.westend.com[212.117.79.67] said: 450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 300 seconds... (in reply to RCPT >TO command)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Christian's mail server is broken. Why would you co

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:05, Brett Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (create large file) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=public_html/large_file bs=1024 > > count=5 5+0 records in > > 5+0 records out > > > > (get large file) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wget www.lobefin.net/

What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2004-07-20 Russell Coker wrote: > (host mail3av.westend.com[212.117.79.67] said: 450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 300 seconds... (in reply to > RCPT TO > command)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Christian's mail server is broken. Err, no. It's not a bug it

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:48, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-07-20 Russell Coker wrote: > > (host mail3av.westend.com[212.117.79.67] said: 450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 300 seconds... (in reply to > > > RCPT TO command)) [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:48:36 +0200, Christian wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > not a trojan-winXP-desktop ..how does these act, one shot, or all the time? ..how are such Wintendos best shot down? (Where it's legal to shoot them down. Some jurisdictions allow forcibly preventing crime

greylisting

2004-07-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 14.06, Russell Coker wrote: > [...] Greylisted for 300 seconds... [...] > [..] mail server is broken. Russel, if there are arguments against greylisting, I'd like to hear about them - so far, I've mostly seen success reports. (I like greylisting because while the idea is

Re: greylisting

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:28, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 July 2004 14.06, Russell Coker wrote: > > [...] Greylisted for 300 seconds... [...] > > [..] mail server is broken. > > Russel, if there are arguments against greylisting, I'd like to hear A

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Arnt Karlsen: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:48:36 +0200, Christian wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > not a trojan-winXP-desktop > > ..how does these act, one shot, or all the time? Those act as a continuous one-shot deal; to put it another way, they aren't listeni

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 15.23, Russell Coker wrote: > Hmm, the postgrey package is not available for woody (no great > surprise I guess), I'll have to back-port it. I guess you saw my other message by now - written in the apparently mistaken assumption that you probably knew what greylisting is.

Re: greylisting

2004-07-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 15.46, Russell Coker wrote: > It's not similar to TMDA in that it normally should not bother users, > as opposed to TMDA which is specifically designed to annoy people. The similarity is that it requires an extra step by the sender, which is why most spammers/viruses fail

Re: greylisting

2004-07-20 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi On 2004-07-20 Russell Coker wrote: > > Russel, if there are arguments against greylisting, I'd like to hear > > After the previous message explaining it I am all for greylisting! *grin* >> - server pools which don't send out the second try from the same IP. > This will still work eventually

Re: What is GreyListing

2004-07-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > On 2004-07-20 Russell Coker wrote: >> (host mail3av.westend.com[212.117.79.67] said: 450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 300 seconds... (in reply to >> > RCPT TO command)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Christia

Re: What is GreyListing

2004-07-20 Thread Michael Loftis
It's not at ll like challenge response. Challenge response sends email tot he senders/humans asking them to confirm. We're just asking systems to act like a noirmal mailserver during greylisting, which is 4xx, retry later. It won't work forever eventually spambots and virusbots will catch

Re: max requests a celeron web server can handle

2004-07-20 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:38:24AM +0200, emilio brambilla wrote: >hello, > >Volker Tanger wrote: >>If you're looking for a high-performance webserver mainly for static >>files, others than apache could be quite interesting for you, >>especially thttpd, mathopd and Zeus - see >> http://www.acm

Re: max requests a celeron web server can handle

2004-07-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Hello Shannon, Monday, July 19, 2004, 11:22:23 AM, you wrote: > Hello List! >   >   > I've been googling around for recorded info on how many static > files per second a 1.3GHz Pentium Celeron (1Gb RAM, 7200 RPM IDE > hardisk), Apache web server can serve before it starts getting slow. > The stat

Re: [mailinglists] Re: Trusting Backports and unofficial Repositories

2004-07-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Philipp wrote: > first, thank you for you long and comprehensive answer, but we wont use > unstable. they're your servers, so your choice. i wasn't telling you what you should do, i was informing you that there was another very viable alternative and that

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:51, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, it requires postfix' policy server which is only available in > postfix 2.1. I think I'll give up on back-porting it. Back-porting Postfix 2.0.16 was enough pain. I guess I'll just have to move u

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Pulu 'Anau
I use the backport from backports.org for the policy server on a couple of machines, not for the greylisting, but to check the status of domain controllers that provide username services via winbind (samba 3 version, also from backports)... (winbind returns user not found when the domain is down, b

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

2004-07-20 Thread Michael Loftis
backports.org has a 2.1.4 backport currently. --On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 00:07 +1000 Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:51, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, it requires postfix' policy server which is only available in postf