[SunRescue] Re: [Sunhelp] Assigning a second IP address

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

jwbirdsa at picarefy.picarefy.com wrote:
> 
>    Does anybody know what hardware the root DNS servers run on? The mind
> boggles at the number of queries they must handle!

Someone whispered "Sun Enterprise" once to me, but I (and he) could be
wrong...

>    This is similar to something that I saw a lot of a few years ago: "I
> want to put a few pages up on the web, will I need two CPUs or four?" A lot
> of people seem to seriously overestimate the resource requirements for
> Internet services. Maybe it's because the only configurations you hear much
> about are the big ones at big sites (e.g. eBay) where they're skating on
> the thin edge of the feasible. Anyway, I had fun telling people that the
> master website for the Sun Hardware Reference was a 2/120.

Ya. I usually prefer a somewhat overkill-box to have some power "just in
case". Eliminates possible bottlenecks and you can always feel confident
that "this box WILL handle this!".
Then again... Our computer club are sponsored by Sun, and they don't
want any sun4c machines living nowadays.

>    I'd really like to get the 2/120's going again... I also want to crank
> up some Minix-based PC/XT's as webservers too. :>

Old VAXen hardware is always fun to run as webservers. :-)

Mentioning the sun2-arch.. I TRULY want our Sun 2/50 to boot sometime.
It's just so... old and sluggish, and it would be such a nostalgia to
have it sitting there showing xclock or something else (un)useful next
to all the SS5s. :-)
Any idea on how to get this thing netbooting via Solaris/other OS?
I belive SunOS 3.x should be available somewhere.


	/Bjorn