Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and a Pentium 200MHZ

Re:Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 an... by ljosa on Friday January 22, 2016 @06:37AM (#10952147)

The authoritative DNS server for pvv.ntnu.no is still a MicroVAX II from the late 1980s. It runs an (up-to-date, I think) NetBSD. Logging in by SSH takes several minutes, even with SSH v1.

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Re:Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 an... by olemartinorg on Friday January 22, 2016 @08:11AM (#10952460)

Sounds just like the kind of half-crazy stuff NTNU students do when you give them some time to tinker. I heard a story from Samfundet where they were displeased with the speed of their key/value database for some payment processing stuff, so they replaced it with BIND.

Even though the thing is old, I'm guessing the uptime is not that impressive?

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Re:Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 an... by CaptSpify on Friday January 22, 2016 @10:11AM (#10953102)

Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested in seeing how they did it

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Re:Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 an... by hucker on Friday January 22, 2016 @10:40AM (#10953311)

He's probably refering to itkacl, which we use for authorization/acls (not payments). The README (and the code) can be found here: https://git.sesse.net/?p=itkacl;a=blob;f=README;h=3dcb059f30...

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Re:Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 an... by Tepix on Friday January 22, 2016 @08:29AM (#10952541)

Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_4.4 NetBSD_Secure_Shell-20061114

Not really up-to-date I'd say...

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Re:Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 an... by digi_owl on Friday January 22, 2016 @10:52AM (#10953387)

Let me guess, they could have it if they removed it from its original location themselves?

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