[HECnet] HECnet and LCM+L

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-06-09 17:54, Keith Halewood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a quick question – has anybody (else) approached the Living 
> Computers Museum and Labs (in Seattle) with regard to getting their VAX 
> (Rosie) and/or other DECnet-capable kit onto HECnet? Not so long ago, 
> they ‘hid’ their systems behind a ssh gateway because of the number of 
> attacks they were suffering via telnet. It makes it rather difficult to 
> move code onto Rosie… well, perhaps more inconvenient than difficult, 
> especially if all I want to copy are binaries.
> 
> Just asking…

I've been poking Rich Alderson on and off about this for many years. 
Sometimes he responds positively, sometimes I get nothing out of him.
In the end I have no idea if/when they would hook up.
Effort wise, it could be done rather quickly, but it's all down to LCM.

I have my RSX systems completely open to the internet. I don't mind all 
the poking. It's interesting, not to mention an excellent stress test to 
my TCP/IP implementation. And the script kiddies usually are just 
totally confused once they are connected.

I can't even start counting the number of probes and attacks I am seeing 
every day. Not only telnet, but ftp, and most of all http.

Adding Rich to this mail, so he knows that the topic came up again. I've 
offered to help them get an RSX system up and running properly as well, 
since they have several real 11/70 machines around. But it seems like 
the PDP-11s at LCM are mostly just sort-of working. ;-)

For the time being Magica.Update.UU.SE (MAGICA::) is, as far as I know, 
the only real 11/70 on the internet with full internet access, exposed 
to all the crazy people and scripts, and on 24/7. Yes, Magica is back, 
since we managed to get our cooling system fixed. Wohoo. :-)

   Johnny

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