[Dovecot] dovecot.org mirrors?

Francisco Wagner C. Freire wgrcunha at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 23:22:40 EEST 2011


Hello,

I send to you a PM with instructions to get the server.
Let me known if u had any problems.

Regards :)

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 19:35 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> > I was also planning on adding some mirroring by adding 2+ A records to
> > some names:
>
> The mirroring setup is finished. There's a master server now handling
> dovecot.org and a mirror server handling www/hg/wiki. Would be nice to
> get another reliable fast mirror server if someone wants to donate
> one :) Requirements are:
>
>  - Apache2 with WSGI
>  - Mercurial
>  - Patched moinmoin
>  - ssh + rsync so I can push changes immediately
>
> I have a script that builds all of those on a freshly installed CentOS
> 5.6 (and a kickstart config to do the install too).
>
> >  * hg.dovecot.org can be mirrored either with hg itself pushing changes
> > or calling rsync
>
> hg commit hook calls rsync immediately
>
> >  * www.dovecot.org can be mirrored with periodic rsync. The most
> > frequent changes are mailing list archives and nightly tarballs.
>
> www itself doesn't change unless I change it manually. When a new mail
> arrives via mailman, it gets rsynced to mirrors within 5 minutes. This
> is done by rsyncing the current month's all files/dirs.
>
> >  * wiki*.dovecot.org could also be rsynced and set read-only. A patched
> > MoinMoin could show "Edit" links as pointing to master.wiki*.dovecot.org
> > where editing is allowed.
>
> Edits are rsynced to mirrors within 5 minutes.
>
> Also there's a nightly script that rsyncs everything just in case
> (except in case of mailing list archives only current+last month, since
> they're so huge).
>
> BTW. Apparently there's still something wrong with dovecot.org's reverse
> DNS record. It appears to be ok, but some DNS servers have cached it
> wrong. I don't know why. We've complained to the ISP. Also dovecot.org
> is currently sharing IP with some other stuff, but should get its own IP
> some day.
>
>


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