[178198] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT - Small DNS "appliances" for remote offices.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Johnston)
Thu Feb 19 14:51:22 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <2AFD8B2B-9655-4149-B57D-BBEB6B3C383D@beckman.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:51:14 +0000
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
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older apple tv will work as well :)
Colin
> On 19 Feb 2015, at 19:47, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
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> If your time is worth anything, you can't beat the Mac Mini, =
especially for a branch office mission-critical application like DNS.
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> I just picked up a Mini from BestBuy for $480. I plugged it in, =
applied the latest updates, purchased the MacOSX Server component from =
the Apples Store ($19), and then via the Server control panel enabled =
DNS with forwarding.
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> Total time from unboxing to working DNS: 20 minutes.
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> The Server component smartly ships with all services disabled, in =
contrast to a lot of Linux distros, so it's pretty secure out of the =
box. You can harden it a bit more with the built-in PF firewall. The =
machine is also IPv6 ready out of the box, so my new DNS server =
automatically services both IPv4 and IPv6 clients.
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> You get Apple's warranty and full support. Any Apple store can do =
testing and repair.
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> And with a dual-core 1.4GHz I5 and 4GB memory, it's going to handle =
loads of DNS requests.
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> Of course, if your time is worth little, spend a lot of time tweaking =
slow, unsupported, incomplete solutions.
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> -mel
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> On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
> wrote:
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>> On 2015-02-19 18:26, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:52:42 +0000, David Reader said:
>>>> I'm using several to connect sensors, actuators, and such to a =
private
>>>> network, which it's great for - but I'd think at least twice before =
deploying
>>>> one as a public-serving host in user-experience-critical role in a =
remote
>>>> location.
>>> I have a Pi that's found a purpose in life as a remote smokeping =
sensor and
>>> related network monitoring, a task it does quite nicely.
>>> Note that they just released the Pi 2, which goes from the original =
single-core
>>> ARM V6 to a quad-core ARM V7, and increases memory from 256M to1G. =
All at the
>>> same price point. That may change the calculus. I admit not having =
gotten one
>>> in hand to play with yet.
>> Weird thing - it still has Ethernet over ugly USB 2.0
>> That kills any interest to run it for any serious networking =
applications.
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>> ---
>> Best regards,
>> Denys
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