Internet Force 1995–1996

Systems Overview · 1995

DVLP (dvlp)

DVLP was the machine where software and configuration were prepared before they went anywhere near the production servers: the Sun development, build and operations host.

DVLP box in the 1995 Systems Overview
Crop from images/internetforce_server_map.png (Systems Overview 1995).

System identity

Hostname
dvlp
Address
206.20.95.130 · office LAN
Platform
Sun SPARCstation 4
OS
SunOS 4.1.4
Role
Development/build, staging and operations host; central loghost.

Services and configuration

Service / role Description Configuration / evidence Documentation
Development and build host Software preparation and compilation before production. described in the canonical README Development
Compilers and build environment Toolchain kept off the production servers. no recovered configuration Development · Software inventory
Perl and support tools Operational and provisioning scripts. artifacts/scripts/expire.pl · artifacts/scripts/ · artifacts/tools/ Development
Local source code General development area on /cisco and around it. no source archive published Development
Router configuration tools Storage of the Cisco configurations and the new-POP procedure. ../pops/CISCO-add_new_pop-HOWTO.txt · ../pops/ Router and WAN
Deployment and system changes Changes prepared here and applied to the production hosts. artifacts/scripts/system.modification-after_OSINSTALLATION.txt Development
DAT tape backup and loghost Operational point for the central-system backups. BACKUP Operations and backup

Historical note

DVLP was the Sun development/build host; the Linux marco workstation was for experimentation, administration and testing. A Linux → SunOS cross-compilation was not part of the operational workflow.

On the maps

Full technical documentation

Open the canonical DVLP README

This HTML page is a compact presentation; the Markdown README is the canonical source.