Subj : Re: Retro BBS Tech
To   : bcw142
From : Vk3jed
Date : Sat Jun 10 2017 09:12:00

-=> bcw142 wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 bc> @MSGID: <593AEC7E.48.rtn-rtnpcall@freeway.apana.org.au>
 bc> @TZ: 40f0
 bc> On 06/09/17, Vk3jed said the following...
 Vk> Yes, they were exciting times, and when I worked in IT, it was very
 Vk> interesting.  It was a time when you could build a lot of systems, and
 Vk> had to do so, if you wanted a service without paying what the big end of
 Vk> town paid.  I put a business on the Internet with a number of Linux
 Vk> boxes, forming an Internet connected network complete with proper DMZ,
 Vk> screening firewall and a NAT router.  A web server lived in the DMZ, and
 Vk> one or two other public facing systems.  Today, all that stuff is done
 Vk> by cheap boxes from China (most of us have at least one between us and
 Vk> the Internet ;) ).

 bc> Just what I do with a raspberry pi now (it's my dmz/web/bbs) ;)

I'm talking about a true DMZ, not an exposed host.  A true DMZ is a network
between a screening router (packet filter) on the Internet side and the main
firewall on the LAN side.  The DMZ is where public facing servers are generally
located - with some protection from the public Internet, and isolation from the
main LAN.


.... MODEM? I've been calling this BBS with a Tarot deck.
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