[178173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT - Small DNS "appliances" for remote offices.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Mulligan)
Wed Feb 18 19:27:59 2015
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:27:56 -0700
From: Geoff Mulligan <nanog08@mulligan.org>
To: Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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The BeagleBone Black uses flash memory to hold the system image which
allows it to boot quickly. I'm running Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 and it seems
stable.
Geoff
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On 02/18/2015 05:20 PM, Bacon Zombie wrote:
> You also have to watch out for issues with the Pi corrupting SD cards.
> On 19 Feb 2015 01:04, "Geoff Mulligan" <nanog08@mulligan.org> wrote:
>
>> I have used the BeagleBone to run a few simple servers. I don't know if
>> the ethernet port on the Bone is on the USB bus. It is slightly more
>> expensive than a PI, but they have worked well for me.
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>> On 02/18/2015 04:44 PM, Peter Loron wrote:
>>
>>> For any site where you would use a Pi as the DNS cache, it won't be an
>>> issue. DNS isn't that heavy at those query rates.
>>>
>>> Yeah, it would be awesome if they'd been able to get a SoC that included
>>> ethernet.
>>>
>>> -Pete
>>>
>>> On 2015-02-18 15:08, Robert Webb wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I do not like about the Pi is the network port is on the USB bus
>>>> and thus limited to USB speeds.
>>>>
>>>> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Maxwell Cole
>>>> <mcole.mailinglists@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:02/18/2015 4:30 PM
>>>> (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: "nanog@nanog.org >> 'NANOG list'"
>>>> <nanog@nanog.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: OT - Small DNS "appliances"
>>>> for remote offices. </div><div>
>>>> </div>
>>>>