two questions

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

I do this with my mediaone connection, as I'm sure many others do.  I'm
not sure how well, if at all Solaris 8 will run on a Sparc 2 though.
Mediaone doesn't seem force reconnects, as the only time my IP will renew
is if I reboot after a long period of time.  I actually have two servers
off of mediaone right now, son to be condenesed to one.  My primary
server, home.tzo.org is really agabriel.ne.mediaone.net this is a Linux
box.  My other server a Sun Ultra Blade 100 is running Solaris 8 it is
ultra.ne.mediaone.net soon to be home.tzo.org - if I get a chance to
finish moving my stuff.  So the answer to your question is yes it can be
done.  If your going to be running a Sparc 2 as a server you may want to
look at OpenBSD, it runs well on Sparc systems (although I have never
tried it on a Sparc2).  One other thing well I'm thinking about it - check
out tzo.com they have a subdomain service they sell for $20 a year, its
really a good deal.

Enjoy,
Anthony

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Chris Janicki wrote:

> My Mediaone connection uses DHCP to assign IPs.  You're pretty limited 
> unless you have some business grade service I don't know of.  If it is 
> DHCP, your setup will work, but only as long as you don't reconnect to 
> retrieve a random IP/host address.  And I wouldn't be surprised if 
> Mediaone forces reconnections every 24 hours or so, just to prevent this 
> type of usage.
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> On 4/3/01, 10:11:49 PM, "oz" <xorgen at mediaone.net> wrote regarding two 
> questions:
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >       1.) I recently got my hands on a box that I would like to install 
> FreeBSD
> > and Solaris 8 on.  Can anyone point me to a how-to on the easiest/best 
> way
> > to go about this? For example, which OS should I install first? What boot
> > loader should I be using?
> 
> >       2.) I am connected to the internet with Mediaone.  I have a sparc 
> station2
> > on my LAN that just sits there wasting electricity.  I would like to turn
> > this box into a mail/squid/dns/webserver just to get some sys admin 
> practice
> > other than trying to secure my boxes.  Has anyone ever set up a server 
> like
> > this off their mediaone cable connection?  I already have another box set 
> up
> > with Apache, but can this be done for mail?  So people would be able to
> > access http://whatever.ne.mediaone.net, and also be able to email
> > oz at whatever.ne.mediaone.net?
> 
> > Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> > .:oz:.
> 
> 
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