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Old 05-19-2008, 03:01 PM  
rowan
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by jalami View Post
Got one from 2002 in a datacenter going strong... a power supply went on it and was replaced. Hard drive failed requiring the manual fsck but is still alive for now. Working on moving the last domains out to retire it for good. Yes that's right, 2002.
In the early 2000's I paid about $1.5k for a 1RU Celeron 733 server in a rack at he.net with free hosting by a "friend" ... he was caught nabbing BGP ASNs or unused IPs and his IP range was derouted, so any attempts to send packets to that network would fail. Outbound still worked though: I could still see the server trying to do DNS zone file fetches on my home office server for at least 2-3 years after that. I have no idea what happened to it, maybe it's still up... I never really chased it up since I didn't have to pay for the hosting...
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