[gopher] Re: Active ?

[Alessandro Selli <dhatarattha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JumpJet Mailbox wrote:
>  
>   Neither gopher://alessandro.route-add.net  or gopher://gopher.rp.spb.su are 
> accessable from Port 70.  This is probably due to these Gopher servers being 
> removed from Internet service.  
>

   Yep.  The former server was my own: there was also a gopher.route-add.net 
host.  But that was the time when those host names both resolved to 
80.68.194.26, that was my ADSL connection's public IP address.  I now no 
longer have an ADSL connection and I had to move my mail and web servers to 
a hosting facility (alessandro.route-add.net now resolves into 
195.182.210.150) that does not offer a gopher service as an option to its 
customers.

   About the deploying of a UMN gopherd server: though things might have 
changed since then, on march 13th 2004 John Goerzen wrote the following 
commenting my running a public UMN gopherd 3.0.3 server:

http://lists.complete.org/gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx/2004/03/msg00007.html.gz
        
        Gopherd is no longer maintained.  Security holes were being
        found in it on a regular basis, and nobody really had the
        inclination to give it a thorough security audit given the
        fact that more advanced Gopher servers existed.  Therefore,
        I would strongly urge you *NOT* to deploy UMN Gopherd.


   Bye,

-- 
Alessandro Selli
Tel: 340.839.73.05
http://alessandro.route-add.net