un.impressive.net was an old PC of mine that I recycled into a
web server; it ran impressive.net for the last couple years,
hosted at MIT. I posted a few more details to fogo in May 2000. [1]
It finally died a couple weeks ago: there was a power shutdown
and it didn't come back up cleanly afterwards; scsi drive died
or bios went flaky or something.
Thanks to some co-workers I finally got its main ide drive back online
a day or two ago, and I have been working at restoring the services
that used to be running there. Unfortunately I lost /etc and I
stupidly didn't have a backup of it, so I had to recreate a bunch
of stuff (BIND and Apache config) from scratch.
I made the new setup much cleaner than the old one, and I'm
pretty happy with it... I'll try to post details later.
When un first died, I brought its IP address up on another system
at MIT, and set up
http://impressive.net/ to proxy to my home
machine, where I happened to have another copy of my web site.
But tons of other stuff was broken in the meantime (including
this mailing list; you probably noticed a bunch of old mail
arriving just now.) It was pretty frustrating not having access
to the system that crashed in Boston. (and I didn't feel like
driving 7 hrs each way just to deal with this)
So I made a few changes to my sites:
- impressive.net is now hosted at home, on a DSL line with
static IP that I got from magma.ca earlier this week
(servers officially allowed!); I'm currently using their
"professional package" [2] though I might upgrade to premium.
- most of the stuff that used to be on un is now on
mr-plow.shmop.net [3] (still at MIT); those of you that had
logins and sites on un should be able to log in there.
There were a few other reasons I wanted to make these changes
too: I had to make impressive.net's home page more businesslike
to please the contractor folks at MIT, but we're not supposed to
have commercial stuff on our MIT sites; and I'm tired of waiting
for the network whenever I publish photos to my web site.
(no more waiting now that it's in my bedroom)
I'm hoping to turn shmop.net into some kind of free mailing list
hosting/archiving community thing, if I can find others to help,
and time to work on it.
oh... I think I have almost everything running on mr-plow that
used to be on un (and it has the same IP as un: 18.29.5.50), but
there might be a few things I'm missing, e.g. backup MX and DNS
for a few sites; let me know if you notice anything missing.
[1]
http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/[email protected]
[2]
http://www1.magma.ca/residential/highspeed/prices.html
[3]
http://mr-plow.shmop.net/
--
Gerald Oskoboiny <
[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/