mooneye

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.