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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Wed Feb 18 17:36:53 2015

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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:32:14 +0100
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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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