What perils? Put OSX on it and use Apache.
On Nov 25, 2004, at 12:25 AM, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
Hi all, I hope this isn't off topic. Considering that the guinea pig for this
experiment is a blue-and-white G3, it probably actually is ON topic.
Anyway, I might be getting a G4 Sawtooth from a friend who's upgrading to a
G5. This means that my trusty Blue-And-White might wind up without a purpose.
This can't happen. So, I've come up with an interesting idea. Hear me out.
I want to put this machine on the Internet. I have three static IPs with my
DSL connection, and my ISP (DSLExtreme) allows people to have servers up.
I know that, for one thing, I can host Unreal Tournament (1999) games on this
thing if I run either MacOS 9 or X. But suppose I want to do other things?
Like maybe have a web server, or FTP, or even IRC?
I know that MacOS X is something you have to be careful with. It's a xNIX,
just like the *BSDs and Linux. Therefore it has the same vulnerabilities.
However, MacOS 9 and below is different. It isn't rootable because there is no
root account! This is why the US Army has been using WebSTAR under MacOS 9 to
host army.mil. WebSTAR unfortunately is extremely expensive. Stairways'
NetPrezenz is a little less expensive, but still expensive. There are
freeware proggies like machttp but they are unknown quantities to me. I know
about GlobalIRCd too. It looks very intriguing.
It's gotten to the point where I'm beginning to get geeked about the idea of
running some Internet-exposed servers on a Mac running 9 for the sheer hack
value of it. It just sounds like fun.
Has anyone done this? Is it feasible? Or should I just stick to maybe slapping
Debian Linux PPC or MacOS X on this baby and just do it the *NIX way, with
all its inherent perils?
Let me know, Michelle -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it!
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