mooneye

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  1. A silvery freshwater fish of the family Hiodontidae, especially Hiodon tergisus of eastern North America.

How and when machine obtained:

  • Mooneye was built from parts in 1999. The parts were from assorted donations.

History prior to arrival at UCC:

  • There was none, was born at UCC.

UCC history of machine:

  • Arrived early 1999.
  • Took over from moray in late 1999 as a mail/web server.
  • Due to overheating problems, various parts were replace during 2000.
  • In August 2001, the hard disk died and could not be resurrected. As mooneye was only a 5x86 with 32MB of RAM, we rebuilt it from scratch around a dual pentium 90 motherboard that was not yet assigned a task. Since there was no significant common links between this system and the old mooneye, it should've gotten a new name.
  • Mooneye died in 2002, allowing all hell ot break loose. It was transplanted, and put into a new case. Once again becoming a stable part of the network.
  • Mooneye was upgraded in 2005 to a dual Pentium 2 and transplanted yet again when the business school donated some of their older machines to the club.

Current machine tasks:

  • Acts as the primary point of contact between the outside world. Handles flame, mail, web and DNS services.
  • Proxies WWW requests to mermaid.

Current software configuration:

  • Mooneye runs Debian GNU/Linux
  • 2.4.x kernel

Current hardware configuration:

  • Dual Intel Pentium 2 @ 450MHz
  • 512MB RAM
  • Intel 100Mb network card

Future plans for machine:

  • None.

Special notes:

  • Logins are restricted to wheel members only.

Thanks:

  • All those involved in building it and keeping it alive.
  • [TDH] for donating the motherboard.
  • [MSH] for providing the CPUs.
  • The UWA Business School for donating the parts for its current incarnation

Related sites:

  • None.