The newrack.jpg Picture

[Falk Husemann <josen_(_at_)_x2n_(_dot_)_de>]

Dear listreaders,
since I'm using OpenBSD (starting august 2003), I'ven been wondering if
the rack shown under [1] is owned by Theo and how it is hosted. Looks
like a whole farm of compile machines. I'd really like to know more
about them. Does anyone know details?


Then I came across the domain dispute under [2] and started wondering
again what kind of stuff Theo uses for cooking his OS. There Theo said:

"[...] my 128Kbit ISDN line [...]"

Which makes me believe he's hosting all these servers with a 128k ISDN line. The next thing which made me wonder what it's all about is this newspost [3] of theo
 posted sometime back in 1996, where he seems to be running a Sun behind
 his ISDN for all his services. A zone transfer of his domain theos.com
 showed there's this box zeus.theos.com which does all the work. Is this
 the ominous Sun?

 When running a benchmark against the coremail html file the ping of
 zeus dramatically increases. Either he's really using a ISDN line, or
 the Sun he is using isn't standing the load well (stopped the test
 after a min).

 This at least proved, that he's either behind ISDN or using a Sun dated
 1996.

 But what is fact and what's just a false assumption? Please, anyone,
 tell me, I'm interested in this since a couple of months.

Of course I've checked Google and the FAQ ;-)

[1] = <http://www.openbsd.org/images/newrack.jpg>
[2] = <http://www.theos.com/dispute.html>
[3] =
<http://www.google.de/groups?q=hacked+group:*bsd*+author:Theo+author:de+author:Raadt&hl=de&lr=&selm=DERAADT.96Jun23070919%40zeus.theos.com&rnum=1>



-Falk