Cynic

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Cynic ~ 136.206.15.23

Details

Type:Sun Fire 280R
OS:OpenBSD 4.4
CPU:2 x 900MHz UltraSPARC III CPUs
RAM:2GB
Storage:2 x 32GB SCSI disks in RAID 1
Drives:DVD-ROM drive
Network:Sun Quad Fast Ethernet
Extras:RSC card
The Name:The name was chosen by the person who donated the machine (gliceas@rb). Receive wanted to call it toaster for a while.

Description

Paul Gargan (gliceas@rb) kindly donated this machine to RedBrick during 2007. It initially ran Solaris 10, but we encountered so many problems with this that we gave up and put Debian on it. Debian ran perfectly on the sun4u architecture. A while later we decided that Cynic should be the firewall/services machine for the VM network, and that it should run OpenBSD.

The machine's high availability features (specifically the RSC) and the fair amount of CPU power make it ideal for some sort of important position on the network.

Services

  • DNS
  • Squid
  • Various firewall-related things