[clue] (Linux ETC: J Ockers) Re: (offlist) Distributed data repository

[Crawford Rainwater]

Jim:

Comments below.

----- Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote: -----
> 
> David L. Anselmi wrote:
> > Will wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, like a community backup project?
> >>
> >
> > Zooko has done that too, it's what Tahoe was built for to a degree.
> >
> > That might make a fun installfest like the one they did on AWS.
> >
> > Dave
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> 
> Are there any notes or slides or anything about this AWS installfest?
> I
> need to deploy a few hundred Linux systems (well, maybe 200 or 300) to
> AWS and any clues or help might help me fast track that part of the
> project.
> 
> The objective is to DDoS ourselves in a controlled way. Having
> inadvertently DDoSed ourselves "in real life" we want to set up a QA
> environment where we can test software releases and simulate several
> hundred distributed systems that will all connect to a QA server, and
> then if there is an inadvertent DDoS our production and field systems
> would not be affected.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 

Jeff H (Boulder LUG) has (or had) a few books to give away on Amazon AWS basics which I picked up one in exchange for one of our LPIC-1 books from O'Reilly.  If you are game for Ubuntu based systems (my current preference, LTS wise), I can assist with that via Linux ETC since there is a nice HowTo available that I found via Google.  I was able to figure it out over 2-3 hours after some R&D (research and develop/destroy) since the HowTo left out how the AWS firewalls work in the documentation (could not access the system directly after it was made or other ports).

Let me know your thoughts and if you need some help there with this interesting "test DDoS" project.

--- Crawford

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