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fogWraith
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Reply #15 on: April 06, 2025, 14:16
TL;DR Big project, many year, much online, expand, public, free. Anyways This started out as two separate projects, but they tied in together early on. MacDomain and services are available on the public net and behind Vesper (with perks), Vesper has a lot only available behind the DNS. Vesper is more or less the "core" of the project, it's the alternative DNS server that only delivers what it has on hand, it can sprout off into several master slaves and sub slaves. It's fairly simple like that. There is absolutely nothing preventing anyone from using the Vesper network to set up their own domains and services. From point A, we move down the road and hit a fork with two doors and a path, B - C - D respectively contain a Domain Registrar, Search Engine and a path that leads to MacDomain. Each of the above are in active development, have been written from the ground up to facilitate my basic need for a small network. The Domain Registrar service started out as a simple DNS Zone manager, but got expanded to allow third parties (not me) to register and manage domains. The Search Engine in this case started out simple as well, but grew a bit to be able to index websites that are on the Vesper network. I simply needed a way to find information and get to said information from System 7 - OS 9 machines without having to worry about modern stuff. Moving on down the road then, MacDomain. It got its name because that's what I had spare domains for, and they were thusly repurposed. I started out with writing a POP3 and an SMTP server. The mail service has its own quirks and works the way I set out to make it work. It doesn't relay mail out on the public internet, even though it could. It does not receive mail from the public internet either. With plenty of vanity domains for e-mail, in an environment where the levels of spam is 0%, supports real mail clients, it makes for a fairly nice system to communicate if one wanted to. In my case, it was mostly to send and receive reports between clients and servers - but since it's e-mail, why not let anyone that wants to use it... use it. I also started experimenting with Usenet after finishing up the mail service, I'll most likely be connecting the two at some point, but anyways... requires an actual client capable of connecting to a news server. The environment is contained and not federated. If something more lively and populated is desired, go check out Eternal September, or Google Newsgroups. Thirdly, I added in some basic web hosting, because why not (i need space to store stuff temporarily while working on things that is easily accessible). 1.4 megs of space, subdomain via macdomain.net, gopherhole support, webbased file management etc., and it also supports hooking up a domain registered inside Vesper. Apart from that, there's additional stuff working and is accessible on both sides of the coin - Gopher, IRC, AIM, ICQ and soon, perhaps even the Archie search engine (WWW and Telnet working already). Ta-da! Small internet / ecosystem of awesome! I feel like there's starting to be a lot of text, so I'll finish up by mentioning that I created this for me, but it is also freely available for anyone that would be interested in looking around or use it to create their own services. I will of course be supporting the project and continue its development and answer any questions should they arise; it's at a best effort level though. Also, Bolkonskij, you need to update the URL to the Macintosh Garden image uploader in the forum templates, it's revontulet.org 
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lauland
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512 MB Posts: 674 Symtes 7 Mewconer!
Reply #16 on: April 06, 2025, 20:48
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Amazing, impressive work, oh wraith-of-the-foggy-persuasion! And I understand the really hard work it all entailed (still entailing? will it ever truly be "done"?)...from someone who's read their fair share of RFC's, and has telnet'd to SMTP and other ports not meant to, and typed HELO etc directly. I really want to kick the tires when I get a chance...relive the glory of all those old-but-still-great protocols. Was fun helping you debug the usenet bits, little that I could.
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