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Re: OT - Small DNS "appliances" for remote offices.


From: Peter Loron <peterl () standingwave org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:45:26 -0800

Not to mention reliability issues with old machines...fans failing, leaky capacitors, etc, etc.

-Pete

On 2015-02-18 14:32, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
That option is expensive in power fees...
 Den 18/02/2015 23.12 skrev "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk () gsp org>:


Find someone unloading 50 old, physically small desktop PCs.  Buy the
lot.  Drop OpenBSD and BIND on them, ship 3 to every site, run 1 or 2
live with the leftovers as on-site spares. If one breaks, wipe the disk
and send the box to recycling.

(Just checked: someone on a certain auction site is selling a lot of 64
HP Compaq 8000 (3.16GHz, 2GB) systems, current price $1K.)

---rsk



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