[HECnet] Off Topic FreeBSD and Linux.

[Brett Bump]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:


On 6 Mar 2013, at 14:35, Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org> wrote:



On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:

FreeBSD 4.10 was a good release.   It was far more stable tan 5.x.   It was used long past its use-by date. ;)

And still is (not for work, but on the RSTS hobby domain):

Nice. ;)

How often do you get break-in attempts?   Also, what hardware is it running on?

Daily (this from an hour ago):

Mar   6 12:10:07 mail sshd[98904]: refused connect from 221-147-178-94.pool.ukrtel.net (94.178.147.221)
Mar   6 12:10:07 mail sshd[98904]: refused connect from 221-147-178-94.pool.ukrtel.net (94.178.147.221)

But I am running Slackware on the inside for email and www work now.
FreeBSD is just running to harden the system from attacks.   My preference
would be to keep running FreeBSD over Linux, but for work that is not a
viable option anymore.   The RSTS.org hardware is pretty simple:

http://www.rsts.org/~bbump/blog/gallery.php?album=.&pic=p6164261.jpg

Use cheap hardware and USB connect to a jbod with 4TB.   When the cheap
hardware dies, grab another cheap donated piece of hardware and reboot.
I have 3 more of those cheap Gateway machines that were given to me. My
plan was to simh different versions of RSTS on them for telnet access.

The hardware at work is much nicer (but they have a budget, I don't):

Multiple...
Dell rack Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @ 3.07GHz 288GB memory 10TB drives.

Brett