[tech] waix box

[David Basden]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:23:56AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, David Manchester wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:12:56AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > > mojarra (130.95.13.20) is currently being installed, and will become UCC's
> > > waix box. However, I'm having a bit of trouble getting it to mount /home -
> > > morowng is denying it service, despite the fact it's in /etc/exports. Any
> > > ideas? Also, do we want it doing mail? I haven't made 172.26.42.20 it's
> > > primary IP yet, I will soon though. ssh, nis, vim, less, zsh are
> > > installed, along with a couple of tasks (the dev ones, python, maybe a few
> > > others).
> > 
> > What's a WAIX box?
> 
> A box with it's primary IP being a WAIX IP, so we don't have to resort to
> a gazillion routes like is currently done on mermaid and mussel, or set up
> BGP. Useful for people in WAIX to get to UCC, and to get to WAIX from UCC.


All people have to do at the moment to get from WAIX to UCC is to
use the .waix.ucc addresses. All return traffic will also use the
WAIX only IP, and will not be filtered.

As for stuff going out, all we need is a wrapper for bind() :)

David