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   Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:58:58 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

   More #DynDNSHistory in a #RoomWhereItHappened: this was at my apartment in Worcester, MA, as we were prepping for Dyn's really big move from that Ithaca colo into a real live datacenter with real racks and everything - Exodus BOS03 in Waltham, MA.

   The rack-mount server here was destined to be the firewall machine for the rack we were moving into. The tower labeled hematite was an OG partner to amethyst (seen in that older colo photo).

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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 10:59:04 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     This firewall, memorably, was involved (after it was serving live traffic) in a fat-finger incident in which I felt like I was setting a land speed record driving from Worcester to Waltham, because I managed to drop all traffic, with no out of band management access at that time. That was a stressful drive.

     While prepping this post I went through a bunch of old stuff from our web site thanks to @internetarchive and I have a bunch of ideas for more stories to tell!

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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:02:00 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     That router, by the way, was, I believe, the classic WRT-54G. Anyone still have one in service?

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:04:18 JST feld

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     @tim that's the internet
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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 11:22:18 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     A gem from the archive: we didn't have a PO Box or anything yet so I was getting donations mailed directly to that apartment and the address is all over the web archive.

     I was just reminiscing with my dad about the random weird mail I got with donations to our house in NY (where that teenage Tim photo came from). We got foreign currency, checks, money orders, random hardware, you name it. Ah, those were fun times.

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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 21:16:25 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     @mike at that point, probably not, I think it was running stock Linksys firmware.

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     Mike Fraser :Jets: (mike@thecanadian.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 21:16:26 JST Mike Fraser :Jets:

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     @tim Awesome a wrt54g! Was it running ddwrt?