On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 03:14:38PM +0000 or thereabouts, Tony Finch wrote: > Steve Karmeinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I remember Demon buying an SGI Indigo (I think) to run a Real Audio server > > in > > late 94 ... they were nice looking systems, but rapidly outclassed :( > There were still a couple of SGI boxes running Homepages when I was there. > I believe the history (before my time) was that Irix was chosen because it > had a firewall trick so you could configure the box to accept TCP > connections for a whole CIDR block with negligible configuration. > (IPfilter and others couldn't do this.) Later on Homepages grew a tier of > front end reverse proxy caches running Squid on NetBSD and later FreeBSD, > with a fun kernel hack to get a similar effect to the Irix firewall > config.
Initially running on Apache, but the config file grew so huge with all the virtual hosts that James Grinter wrote thttpd which just based the site on the ip address and had a min config file. Steve -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44 7775 755503 UK +44 20 3432 3735 / US +1 (650) 423 1390 social id stevekennedyuk Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.net
