Cacheboy status update

So by and large, the pushing of bits is working quite well. I have a bunch of things to tidy up and a DNS backend to rewrite in C or C++ but that won't stop the bits from being pushed.

Unfortunately what I'm now lacking is US hosts to send traffic from. I still have more Europe and Asian connectivity than North American - and North America is absolutely where I need connectivity the most. Right now I'm only able to push 350-450 megabits of content from North America - and this puts a big, big limit on how much content I can serve overall.

Please contact me as soon as possible if you're interested in hosting a node in North America. I ideally need enough nodes to push between a gigabit and ten gigabits of traffic.

I will be able to start pushing noticable amounts of content out of regional areas once I've sorted out North America. This includes places like Australia, Africa, South America and Eastern Europe. I'd love to be pushing more open source bits out of those locations to keep the transit use low but I just can't do so at the moment.

Canada node online and pushing bits!

The Canada/TORIX node is online thanks to John Nistor at prioritycolo in Toronto, Canada.

Thanks John!

Cacheboy-1.5: IPv6 DNS servers

I'm just debugging the last couple of issues with the IPv6-aware UDP/TCP DNS code. The Internal DNS resolver still only understands IPv4 code (and, more importantly, the ipcache/fqdncache layer too!) but the code itself will communicate with IPv4/IPv6 DNS servers.

I think I'll stop the development here and concentrate on getting the Cacheboy-1.5 release out the door. I'll then work on IPv6 record resolution in a seperate branch in preparation for Cacheboy-1.6. I may even break out the ipcache/fqdncache code into external libraries so I can reuse/debug/test that code during development.

Upcoming Cacheboy-1.5.PRE3 development release

(Yes, I've been slack in posting about this stuff.)

I'm just about to roll the next Cacheboy-1.5 development pre-release. Cacheboy-1.5 is probably the last "almost but not quite squid-2.HEAD" release. Besides the IPv6 core, Cacheboy-1.5 resembles the Squid code but with a more sensible layout of modules and libraries.

Its main difference is the inclusion of core comm layer changes to support IPv6 in preparation of IPv6 client and server support. This particular pre-release includes some changes to the internal DNS code to decouple it from a few routines in src/ relating to TCP socket connection. Its possible I've busted stuff - just run cacheboy with "debug_options ALL,1 78,2" for a while to see if you're falling back to TCP DNS properly.

I'm about to put Cacheboy-1.5.PRE3 in production for a couple of clients to get some real world feedback.