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["Jerry Pipes" <domains AT snewpy.com>]

I'm still interested in hearing about the various hardware configurations 
that people are using to run their Tier1/Tier2 servers.  Is everyone running 
VMs?

Jerry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Pipes" <domains AT snewpy.com>
To: <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Name server failure? - also Hardware 
Requirements?


> Hi Brian,
>
> Thanks for the response.  See my comments below.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Koontz" <brian AT opennicproject.org>
> To: <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 9:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Name server failure? - also Hardware 
> Requirements?
> > Both servers check out fine.  It sounds to me like your ISP might be
> > redirecting port 53 access (Comcast, by chance?), and that it took some
> > time for your DNS changes to propagate through to the other computers 
> > (esp.
> > if done at the router).  Browsers cache their DNS settings for quite a
> > while.
>
> I've since reconfigured my PC alone to use the OpenNIC servers, and 
> everything seems to be working okay.
>
> > A RPi would be great for a local caching server!  If you're interested in
> > running a Tier 2, you'd most likely want a *nix-based VM hosted elsewhere
> > to do this.
>
> Is this how most people do it?  At some point, I'm planning to start my 
> own TLD, so I would probably use the same hardware for both, right?
>
> >  Processing and bandwidth requirements are modest.  The
> > important thing is that you will want to run whitelisting and some 
> > firewall
> > rules that will throttle down the connection considerably in the event of 
> > a
> > DDOS attack.
>
> I'm doing this as a learning experience, so I think I'd enjoy setting up 
> my own server and configuring everything.  My *nix skills are a little 
> rusty, but I think I could manage.  What kind of hardware are you running 
> for .gopher?
>
> Jerry