[Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Mar 11 21:17:32 CET 2006

[Thomas Heller]

Are there any estimates how much network traffic a buildbot would generate?

It should be trivial except for the initial checkout of the Python code base.

And how must it be connected to the internet - I assume it must be reachable from the outside.

The slave opens a socket connection to the master, so you must be able to reach the python.org box from the slave. I don't expect you'll have serious problems if you can do that much. For example, my home box has a dynamic IP (assigned by my ISP to my router), my router gives a different dynamic IP to my box (NAT'ed), and I'm running behind both software and hardware (SPI) firewalls. Because my box initiated the connection, nothing in the chain objects.

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