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Okay. Lots of people come here looking for anonymous servers. So, I'm curious, what're you looking for? I've debated starting up various anonymizing services, but I don't really know what everyone keeps looking for. Please feel free to contact me with ideas, use a bogus From address if you want. Contact me here: Stephen Olesen

At Geeks Anonymous, we run multiple servers. Most of the servers are in one location, and those are the ones for which bandwidth statistics are gathered for public viewing. Most of the servers perform more than one purpose, but there are a few dedicated servers. What they are, and what they do, is listed below.

You may also be interested in the various server statistics that I accumulate.

[ anteek.geeksanon.ca | mail.geeksanon.ca | broken.geeksanon.ca ]
[ obsolete.geeksanon.ca | insanity.duped.net ]

anteek.geeksanon.ca - A Visual Tour of Anteek
Anteek is the longest lived of all the servers in the Geeks Anonymous group. The very beginnings of the services offered by Geeks Anonymous began on Anteek. It was first put together in late 1992 running an ancient version of Slackware Linux 3.2 (or something like that). Since then, it has evolved into what it is today. Anteek rightfully justifies a page unto itself (and it has a few.. You just have to find them), but the summary statistics are as follow:
  • AMD K6-II-450 Processor on a Asus P5A-B Motherboard
  • 512MB of PC100 SDRAM
  • Six local hard drives:
    1. Quantum Fireball 6.4 gigabyte IDE (Model: ST6.4A)
    2. Maxtor 11.5 gigabyte IDE (Model: 91152D8)
    3. Quantum XP34550
    4. Fujitsu MAB3045SP
    5. Quantum Atlas V 9 gigabyte SCSI (Model: Atlas V 9 WLS)
    6. Quantum Atlas IV 9 gigabyte SCSI (Model: Atlas IV 9 WLS)
  • Sony SDT-7000 4/8GB DDS-2 Tape Backup Drive (SCSI)
  • Iomega ZIP 100 Internal SCSI
  • NEC 501 Quad-spin Caddied CD-ROM Drive (SCSI)
  • 3COM 3C905B 10/100MBps Ethernet Card
  • ATI Rage 128 PF AGP 2x/4x 32MB Video Card
  • Adaptec 2940 (AIC-7881U) Single Channel SCSI Controller
  • Digi Acceleport Xe ISA 8 port Serial Card
  • Creative ViBRA16C Sound Card
  • Dual 300-watt Redundant Power Supplies
  • Dual-width 14 Bay Server Case, with Nine Cooling Fans
Anteek also has three remote drive mounts (NFS/SMB) adding in another 80 gigabytes of available disk space. It runs a total of about 50 distinct services to the public, most of which I won't even bother listing. Primarily, it handles HTTP, FTP, shell access, XDMCP (X11 Display Manager, and related software), NFS services, primary cluster coordination point, slePP's workstation, and more.
mail.geeksanon.ca - Mail Server Statistics
The mail server is the most specialized server of the entire batch that Geeks Anonymous maintains. The hardware specifications are as follow:
  • Dual Pentium 133 Processors on a Tyan Tiger Motherboard
  • 256MB of 60ns ECC EDO SIMMs
  • Three local hard drives:
    1. Quantum Fireball 1.2 gigabyte IDE (Model: 1280A)
    2. Maxtor 11.5 gigabyte IDE, RAID-1 Device 1(Model: 91152D8)
    3. Maxtor 6.4 gigabyte IDE, RAID-1 Device 2(Model: 90648D3)
  • 3COM 3C905 Ethernet Card
The mail server runs mail services, and nothing more. It uses qmail 1.03 with a number of patches and custom modifications. It provides mail retrieval services with the Courier IMAP and POP3 packages. Virus scanning of each mail message is performed by a custom program, qmail-scanner and Kapersky AVP. It also provides a news server using DNEWS. Each of the primary mail services (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, QMTP, QMQP) also have SSL/TLS enabled. All the user account information is stored in a central OpenLDAP directory. Mail administration runs from Anteek, and works with this LDAP directory.
broken.geeksanon.ca
Broken is more or less just an addition to the network because it was something to do at the time. It started out with two 500 megabyte SCSI-2 drives, and only one CPU. However, now, it provides a multitude of HTTP servers and is the primary NFS file server for the LAN.
  • Dual Pentium 166 Processors on a Tyan Tiger Motherboard
  • 256MB of 60ns ECC EDO SIMMs
  • Four local hard drives:
    1. Quantum Bigfoot 2.5 gigabyte IDE
    2. Quantum Fireball 13.2 gigabyte IDE
    3. Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30 gigabyte IDE
    4. Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30 gigabyte IDE
  • 3COM 3C905C-TX Ethernet Card
It also performs backup DNS services, LDAP replication, PostgreSQL services and other smaller services for LAN use.
obsolete.geeksanon.ca - Bandwidth Statistics
This is the main network router, which is a very basic system. It runs FreeBSD and handles the routing of a number of various protocols (IPv6, IPv4, IPX, numerous tunnels and tunneling protocols).
  • Pentium 75 in an IBM Custom case
  • 3 ISA network cards, 10MBps each
  • Two local hard drives:
    1. Seagate Medalist 1.0 gigabyte IDE
    2. Connor 2.5 gigabyte IDE
  • USRobotics Sportster 33.6k ISA Modem
The router handles over 15 "devices" (virtual and real) at any given time, with tunnels setup to clients, other members of Geeks Anonymous, larger services (MBONE, 6BONE, etc.) and more. It also provides remote PPTP tunnels, PPP dialup services (in case our main connection dies), and runs a Squid proxy for the LAN and peers to a small group of other Squid proxies. For a Pentium 75, it's a horribly overworked machine.
insanity.duped.net
Insanity is the main server for DuPed.net, among other things. It runs Squid, IRCd (for SpodNET), various web hosts for clients and friends, DNS services, file sharing, routing between Geeks Anonymous' router and the Duped.net LAN. It also runs Zebra for routing protocols, MySQL and Sendmail for mail services.
  • Intel Celeron 400MHz PPGA CPU (Mendocino) @ 450MHz
  • 420MB of SDRAM Memory
  • DFI PXBL Intel LX Slot 1 Motherboard with Slocket Adapter
  • Two local hard drives:
    1. Western Digital Caviar 2.4GB IDE (Model: AC22500)
    2. Maxtor 5.5GB IDE (Model: 90576D4)
  • Two network cards:
    1. 3COM 3C905 Boomerang 100baseTx
    2. 3COM 3C905C Tornado 100baseTx
  • BusLogic BT-946C PCI SCSI Controller
  • Diamond Viper V330 4MB AGP nVidia 128 Video Card
Insanity is the second oldest server in the group and has been through a lot to get to where it is today. I vote we all light it on fire and let it finally accept death, but until then, we'll let it tick along doing nothing in particular. (Note: DuPe responded to this little tidbit about lighting it on fire. His response was: "HEY. you bitch. i hate you. die." We are dealing with him now, do not be concerned.)
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