Greetings all on the QMailToaster list...
For those of you just crawling out from under a rock, let me quickly
catch you up...
* The previous _/head-master/_ of the QMT project, Jake Vickers, has
stepped down for personal reasons and put the project into the most
capable hands of Eric Subert (aka: "Shubes")
* As a result, the majority of the hosting of the QMT Project needs to
be re-distributed amongst the several volunteers
* I have been tasked with building and managing the DNS and MIRROR
portions of that infrastructure
One of the first steps was the transition from having 3 separate and
distinct domains (qmailtoaster.com/net/org) to relying almost
exclusively on one (the .com). You may or may not have noticed... :-)
At the current time, I am working on making our infrastructure more
global (e.g.: less USA-centric)... thus, I asked some of the developers
to volunteer DNS space on their servers and as a result we now have
active DNS servers on 3 continents (specifically, 4 in North America, 3
in Europe, and 2 in Asia).
For those who didn't pass geography in high school (aka: secondary
school), that's pretty good coverage for the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, but
virtually nothing in the Southern (although, I do have one in Indonesia
-- so the region is not completely devoid of coverage -- but that's the
only one I know of that is south of the Tropic of Cancer!).
So how can you help? Well, if you're on this list, you most likely have
a server (why would you be running QMail without a server?)... and we're
_*looking for volunteers willing to add qmailtoaster.com to /YOUR /DNS
services*_. Yours would be a slave server for the domain, fetching
updates from my server in the southeastern USA. The demand is already
pretty low -- with your help, our volunteers won't ever see an impact at
all from adding our DNS hosting...
Specifically, though, I'm looking for those of you experiencing the
/dog-days of summer/ right now (as opposed to the yo-yo
spring/winter/spring weather patterns hitting the northern hemisphere
these days)... So, *if you have a server in South America, Africa, or
Australia* (or, just for grins, in Antarctica!) and would be willing to
join in on supporting the QMT infrastructure, please contact me
OFF-LIST! (No sense in bothering everyone with our chatter about DNS
settings or the like).
To be clear, I'm not particularly worried about your actually being
south of the equator (after all, 2/3 of Africa is NORTH of the equator),
but my goal is to add 2 DNS servers each in the 3 continents listed above...
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SIMILARLY, with regard to the MIRRORS (which is how we distribute
updates), I have great coverage in North America and Europe -- but
nothing in Asia or the southern continents... mind you, the mirrors have
considerably more traffic than the DNS servers, but its still not that
much... if you can help here (being a mirror means having a stable and
fast web server), it would be GREATLY appreciated. I would like to add
TWO new mirrors NOT in North America or Europe to the project...
If you've actually READ this far, you're ahead of most of the pack...
and that's great... If you need technical assistance in setting up
either your DNS or web servers to support your volunteer work, there are
several of us here more than willing to help.
Thanks for reading, and thanks even more for at least considering
becoming an infrastructure volunteer for QMT!
Best Regards,
Dan McAllister
IT4SOHO
PS: When you reply, please make sure that your note is addressed to
/*q...@it4soho.com*/ and NOT to qmailtoaster-list...
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