Re: Multiple Server routet to one location
All this assumes that you need to ration your dialup time. If not use
something like freesco.org to make the connection on demand and use
regular smtp/ftp/http etc to allow people remote access to your Strasbourg
server(s)
> ...and if I collect the Mail in Strasbourg, how can I send it effectif
> to Problem-POP's ?
uucp is the program/protocol designed to deliver mail over intermittent
connections.
I believe that from the mid 80s to the mid 90s, a lot of US email traveled
over uucp over intermittent dialup lines instead of over smtp over
dedicated connections
A quick:
apt-cache search uucp
I did some quick googling...
Below is a link to a Sendmail/uucp doc:
http://www.fifi.org/doc/HOWTO/en-html/mini/Sendmail+UUCP.html
I know you are running courier as your stmp server, but it might help get
some general principles established. Getting this to and from port 25 or
/var/spool/mail might be the same.
As to allowing the remote sites to publish web pages, from experience in
rural southeast USA 11 years ago, I'd guess that most people on the short
end of a intermitant dial-up connection are most interested in email. Once
that is working smoothly, I'd worry about other stuff.
The minority that need/want to publish web pages on the full time
Internet might get by with emailing them to the hub for a little
while.
Hope this helps.
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a small problem with the planning of my CyberCenter:
>
> In Strasbourg I have a Virtual-Webserver with the 'www' Host and the
> 'strasbourg' Host. The internet connectivity is quiet well...
>
> This Server is in the same time the Router/Firewall and has 3 NIC's.
> (external interface, admin-net and public-net with all the Workstations)
>
> Internal I have a nfs-Server where my Clients have a little Diskspace
> (50 MByte) for Web (~/public_html) and Mail (~/Maildir). The Server is
> running courier-(imap,mta) and apache.
>
> Then I have in different villes/countries POP's (other CyberCenters)
> which have its own nfs-Servers.
>
> So I have following public:
>
> www.ccenter.org Main Web-Server
> strasbourg.ccenter.org nfs/apache/courier-Server where clients have:
> E-Mail: client@strasbourg.ccenter.org
> Web: strasbourg.ccenter.org/~client/
> utopia.ccenter.org same as 'strasbourg'
>
> Now the Problem:
>
> The internet connectivity is in some locations only V.90 or ISDN, so
> Web/Mail-Services are not possible permanently.
>
> Solution:
>
> All Web/Mail-Activity is routet via Strasbourg...
>
> OK, I can poll the Problem-POP's through a squid-cache using wget...
>
> But HOW ?
>
> ...and if I collect the Mail in Strasbourg, how can I send it effectif
> to Problem-POP's ?
>
> I was thinking on collecting Mails and put it onto a shttp-cgi, which
> tar it up after a wget-request (e.g. all 30 minutes). Then on the
> Problem-POP it will decompressed and forward all Messages to procmail...
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
>
> Thanks
> Michelle
>
> P.S.: The Location is Ercec (Turkey) and Khoy (Iran) and there is
> nothing !
>
>
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