[gnu.org #227542] Re: [Savannah-help-public] Firewalls

[James Blair via RT]

> address@hidden - Tue Mar 15 19:32:46 2005]:
> 
> Hello sysadmins,
> 
> Do we have free public IP addresses on the GNU network?  We will
> certainly need other free IPs when installing new version control
> systems at Savannah, such as Arch or SVN, or if there are few public
> IP addresses left, we have to consider this choice carefully.

savannah-ssh.gnu.org has address 199.232.41.69, which is now configured
on savannah (DNS may take time to propogate).  I have not opened any
ports in the firewall.

> Anyway, I strongly suggest accompagning any documentation about this
> with a warning telling users to get their admins to change the
> situation. We might write a webpage explaining the problem to such
> admins.

That would be nice, thank you. :)

-Jim