[SURBL-Discuss] Help with sa-blacklist load

[Jeff Chan]

On Thursday, September 15, 2005, 2:28:54 PM, William Stearns wrote:
> Good day, all,
>         I'm running into a problem with the sa-blacklist content I host at 
> http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/ .  The box (*) is hosted at pa.net, a 
> colo facility once employing a good friend.  A new guy was going over the 
> bandwidth stats and noticed that that machine hogs the available bandwidth 
> on its ethernet segment for a few minutes after each hour as people 
> download the sa-blacklist.

Hi Bill,
A couple suggestions:

1.  Try to get people to grab the file at different times, not
all at the same time of the hour.

2.  Get people to use ws.surbl.org instead.  It's mostly the same
data, but more distributed and smaller in memory and file.

Jeff C.
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