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27 years ago my job was hosting hundreds of websites (CBS News, among them) on Sun hardware just like that. It baffles me that anyone would consider this a question at all.
Aix, HP-UX and Solaris, alongside Windows NT/2000 were our production server operating systems.
27 years ago my job was hosting hundreds of websites (CBS News, among them) on Sun hardware just like that. It baffles me that anyone would consider this a question at all.
Were those websites supporting SSL connections, much less TLS 1.2? That would be my question on hardware that old. (In this case, it looks like they offload TLS to Cloudflare, so the machine itself isn't doing any encryption/decryption.)
Doesn't Solaris still live on as the illumos distributions? Tribblix still has SPARC64 builds.
And yes, there are a couple of distributions based on OpenSolaris, one of them powers Oxide infrastructure.
Slightly off topic, but: is it just me or does it become uninteresting to read things like this when the whole process is basically “so then I asked Claude this, and then I asked it this, and then this…” I guess it takes away the intrigue of the project because anyone could do this (ask ai), and the only thing human left about it is the creativity of the idea itself. There’s not much merit to the effort. Edit: nothin…
Interesting it is running OpenBSD 7.8. These old SPARCs are beloved by their developers for their ability to uncover obscure low-level bugs due to the platform's strictness. Everyone else has adequately pointed out SPARC boxes basically ran the Internet back in the day. It wasn't uncommon to have a single box hosting an entire university department: email, web serving, application server, login shell, etc.
Somewhat sad OP is using cloud flare. If it was 2001 you'd just have it with some basic firewall appliance in-front of it.
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He offloads TLS to the Proxmox server within their home network. TLS is used between that server and Cloudflare to keep everything safe during transport.
Recent OpenBSD should be able to do modern TLS, and probably ACME, which would have been more interesting.
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Agreed. The Netscape IPO was over 30 years ago. What do people think the web was running on back then? And why do you think that machine is called a Netra?
> And why do you think that machine is called a Netra? Netras were designed for telco use so not for any obvious reason as you suggest. It was available with -48V power supplies.
27 years ago my job was hosting hundreds of websites (CBS News, among them) on Sun hardware just like that. It baffles me that anyone would consider this a question at all.
Were those websites supporting SSL connections, much less TLS 1.2? That would be my question on hardware that old. (In this case, it looks like they offload TLS to Cloudflare, so the machine itself isn't doing any encryption/decryption.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recent OpenBSD should be able to do modern TLS, and probably ACME, which would have been more interesting.
The question is more about the hardware. Back then, TLS existed but was used sparingly for things like banking, because of the computational overhead, at both the server and client end. Today's computers are so much faster that we don't even think about it.
However, this is precisely the reason why TLS also has the option to use ChaCha20-Poly1305, which will have a decent speed even on an ancient SPARC CPU, though on the most recent CPUs it cannot match the throughput of AES-GCM, which is preferred on these.
So if you want to use a SPARC with TLS 1.3, you must configure it to avoid AES-GCM and use only ChaCha20-Poly1305.