Hi Algenon, I'm sorry, that was the wrong site! (For internal college use only). Try
ftp://cheshire.dyc.edu/pub/tor-uclibc-ramdisk of if ftp is a problem http://cheshire.dyc.edu/pub/tor-uclibc-ramdisk/ Thanks for alerting me! At 3.8 MB for the image, imagine every cell phone in the future being a tor server. --Tony algenon flower wrote: > Hello Dante > Are you Mideval Italian?? (No, Just kidding :), However, no kidding > about your efforts to build a RAM only distro that can run as a Tor server. I > just tried to access your ftp, but failed. Will try again, it sounds like > something I am very interested in. > > Algenon > > > > dante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A month ago I developed a small, ramdisk only (ie diskless), linux > system whose only purpose was to run a tor server. The aim of the > project was to meet the following goals: > > 1) small footprint - i686 (single or SMP) with 256MB+ RAM > 2) to run only in ram so nothing survives a reboot > 3) to do no logging whatsoever at any level > 4) to be secure - GRSEC hardened kernel > 5) to run a tor server, allowing for any configuration, > middle/exit/directory, etc > > I suspect such a project might be of interest to other Tor operators. > > > I ran a middle-man node for about 20 days with success > (node-name=RamOnly), but because I compiled statically against GLIBC, I > broke DNS resolution, and so it would not work as an exit node. I've > rebuild the image from scratch compiling against UCLIBC and I'm now in > the testing phase again. I'm running another middle-man/directory > server (node-name=RamOnlyUCLIBC). Here's the url for the howto and the > image: > > ftp://ddl.dyc.edu/pub/tor-uclibc-ramdisk > > The kernel is compiled with support for most 100MB and 1GB NIC cards. > Any comments or testers would be much appreciated. > > More details: > > busybox-1.8.2 - minimally configured, compiled with UCLIBC > linux-2.6.23.12 patched with Gentoo's hardening patches (GRSEC) > tor-1.2.19 > > --- > > Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. > Director of Information Technology, > D'Youville College, > 320 Porter Ave. > Buffalo NY, 14201 > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. >
