05-Nov-2005

Charon retired
I retired Charon - because modern hardware requires less power, and should be as good. So I replaced Charon by Cerberos - also Linux based, with less elaborate facilities but doing it's job. I had trouble with accessing Diana by Telnet (you don't have to try, it's a different port) but all the rest seems to work: SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS...to both Diana and IO, and outgoing traffic has no trouble (at least, I found no issues yet).
Charon will be held standby - just in case.
(Update)
Well, there is ONE problem. The company's POP channel (not the default 110) seems unusable; Nothing gets through. But it's hard to check in the weekend. See that on Monday.
But for the rest, it works as far as I can see. Only logging should be transferred.

Hardware
I collected the last hardware yesterday : the remaining 36Gb disks, another 9Gb one, a terminal sercer (that might be broken) and DE500B NICs for the Alphastations, so the clusterinterconnect could be on a separate network; the internal 10Mb NICs for the clusterbus and the 100Mb for the the normal LAN traffic.
(Update)
I had one Alpha left, running NT (3.5), and decided it a good moment for installing VMS on it. First, I had to upgrade teh SRM to the latest version (7.0) by floppy disk, next I could install VMS 7.3-2 from CD. How long THAT takes. HOURS!
Name of the machine to start with "D" to keep in line with the other ones: Dido.