Undocumented Sanity

Ok, this post probably isn't going to be very exciting, unfortunately. I'm not super passionate about e-mail, but it's kind of a requirement in order to progress in this series. But, in order to get e-mail working, we are going to need DNS. So I'm going to have a Ubuntu machine running PowerDNS to handle that. We'll start by installing the relevant packages: sudo apt update && sudo apt install pdns-server pdns-backend-sqlite3 sqlite3 pdns-recursor -y Below I'm going to include all of the configuration files from how I set up my instance of PowerDNS so that you can follow along (why would you do that to yourself?). On my Docker Host, I also installed pdns-admin (again, see configs at the bottom for the docker-compose that I used for that. I then added the relevant domains for this part of the project, which are retromail.com and pinnacledataworks.com. (I also added cisco.com because I'm working on grabbing pages from Internet Archive from around 200...

I covered some of this in my last video , but I can include more of the boring details here. Let's start with the overall topology - for context "Nexion" is my retro ISP, and Pinnacle Dataworks is my first retro customer: Full configurations are referenced at the bottom of this post. My goal for Pinnacle Dataworks was to build a network that could have existed in 2005, and I got somewhat close. According to this press release , the Cisco 3825 router was scheduled to begin shipping in October 2004. The IOS version is slightly too new, dated in 2006, but I couldn't find a version that included voice features that had a 2005 (or earlier) date on it. The 3524-PWR switch had been announced in 2000, so it was well established by this point. And running a software version from 2004 works for me. I've since procured a slightly more time-relevant device since then, but this will do for now. In terms of phones, I'm rocking the 7940, which was also announced in 2000, ...