Re: 3G - I had a similar problem with FTP access to some webspace I have on an easily.co.uk server, for a while. The block of dynamic IP addresses that T-Mobile uses is rather large - and whitelisting was unfeasible. However, I'm now on a different server, and FTP access is fine.
Re: mailman - I'm hoping it can be set up to strip attachhments from emails - which should cut down the traffic somewhat.
David
________________________________________ From: Sam Tuke [samtuke@fsfe.org] Sent: 27 February 2012 17:47 To: manchester@lists.fsfe.org Cc: D.Bolton U0970268 Subject: Re: [FSFE-Manc] [Manchester] Server set up day tomorrow
On Sunday 19 February 2012 18:01:48 D.Bolton U0970268 wrote:
I carry out a lot of my internet access via a T-Mobile 3G dongle. Does this mean I'd be blocked?
Possibly, but only for ssh connections, not for any other services. I think that DenyHosts was responsible, which manages a blacklist of IP addresses and blocks them after a few failed attempts. We can add certain addresses to whitelists, but no doubt your dongle has a dynamic address so this wouldn't help. If the problem persists then we can find a solution of some kind (a proxy, for example).
Are you also installing list software, as discussed previously? (eg mailman?) I'd be interested in doing some admin on that, if possible (not that I've used mailman before - but I've had some experience of other systems over the years. And I can always RTFM).
I haven't installed it yet, but I agree with you that it would be a good idea to offer this service (so long as it doesn't much resources, which it won't unless the lists get very busy).
It would be great if you could administrate them - I'm not sure exactly what's involved but it'll be useful to learn. I think you need to edit text files to add new mailing lists? But that's easy enough and I can add you as a system user as soon as I have access again.
Unfortunately the server hasn't been reachable since about 2 days after I last set it up. I'm not sure why; presumably somehow it got switched off?
We need set up the facility to remotely decrypt the root partition at some point. This looks perfectly possible, but I forgot to do it before. We won't actually be able to use this facility until we have proper, non-pagekite based, access (I'm still waiting to hear back from Arcspace about this), but it would be good to have it ready for when we do have direct access.
Thanks,
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