Introduction

Fancy getting involved with SORBS...? Want to help out...? We of SORBS are always looking for help on a variety of fronts. For example:

• People to translate the web sites accurately from English to languages of the world (eg Spanish, French, German, Chinese etc).
• Hosting around the world, for both the web sites and secondary DNS servers.
• Perl mongers.
• Experienced 'C' programmers.
• Donations of equipment or money.
• People that have plenty of time and are familiar with the workings of the Internet.
• People who have the patience of saints to answer queries about blocked addresses.
• People to proof read and correct the web site - in any language.

If you become one of the people to help SORBS, there is not much in the way of recognition. Most get their name on the SORBS Sponsors page, and for considerable donations, their banner and links on each page in the sponsors column.

Details of each category and contacts follow.

If you think you can offer something to SORBS not listed on this page, feel free to email your suggestion to Matthew Sullivan

Translators and Proof readers

Help wanted for translating the SORBS site to multiple languages. Priority translations required for:

• French
• German
• Spanish
• Dutch
• Italian
• Simplified Chinese
• Russian
• Polish

Translations to other languages will be welcomed.

Proof readers are wanted to proof read the site looking for grammar and spelling mistakes on all the SORBS public pages. This includes but is not limited to the English Language site.

Note: Languages will only come online when the entire site is translated.

Hosting Offers

Hosting is always needed for the web sites, DNS zone files server, DNS servers, and test servers.

Anyone offering hosting should be aware of the following:

• Occasionally the servers get DDoSed by people upset with being blocked or just because they want to.
• The web sites are a big target for crackers.
• Current DNS traffic is a constant 1-3Mbps depending on location. (For that reason, SORBS cannot accept hosting from people on DSL or Cable. Thanks for the offer, but sorry.)
• The SORBS web sites will be addressed as: http://www.dnsbl.*.sorbs.net/ where * maps to the location.
• All SORBS web sites must run a local DNS server, though this is not required to be public.
• All SORBS machines run some form of Unix - no exceptions (SORBS is not written with Windows in mind).
• Public SORBS secondaries run rbldnsd, this is due to the memory requirements of both BIND and djbdns, both of which have their advantages, but neither of which were written with black hole type lists in mind.
• Test servers have large numbers of outgoing packets and generate quite a number of complaints.

Perl Mongers and Programmers

Experienced 'C' programmers are needed to build new test tools and other utilities that SORBS uses for locating hacked and Trojaned machines.

As most of the web site is based around or built by Perl scripts, Perl writers are always in need. Experience in Databases and Session tracking is always useful.

Both Perl and 'C' Programmers must be experienced and be able to show previous work, or demonstrate their skills. Your work will not be on the SORBS servers, there is no money available for wages - this is volunteer work, not a job.

Donations of any kind

Donations can be made to the running of SORBS by both money and equipment (new and old).

Donations to SORBS will not help anyone get de-listed - if you are listed in the spam database you will not be allowed to donate to SORBS instead of the listed charity and good causes.

Equipment SORBS is currently seeking:

• 1" Ultra SCSI drives around 8-10G minimum.
  • 2 matched 68pin Ultra SCSI drives desperately needed (9.1G or greater).
  • 80pin SCA Ultra SCSI drives 9.1G or higher for a Sun E450.
• Server Memory
  • PC100 512Meg DIMMs - 2 needed
  • Sun E450 Compatible Memory always needed.
• Complete machines, Rack Mountable 400MHz processor or better (Sun, Intel and AMD)
• A firewall, 1U/2U Rack mountable, 100M throughput minimum. (eg Cisco, Juniper etc)

Financial donations to SORBS will be used to buy the equipment listed above, starting with a firewall. Donations should be made to Matthew Sullivan using Paypal: