NETWORK XXIII is a small fleet of services on the open Internet: mail, chat, news, links, relays. Run by people, not a platform, from a NetBSD box called Roanoke.
Every service we run is a channel. ON AIR means you can use it now. STAND BY means it's being built; OFF AIR means it's between seasons.
Roundcube webmail for every domain we host. Self-service for mailboxes and aliases is the next thing to dock.
Our own browser chat: rooms, direct messages, attachments. A native Android app is on final approach.
A bulletin board system, 2026 edition: message boards, file areas, door games, a war dialer and the Voidrunner command deck. In your browser or over telnet.
We are a Usenet node. NNTP is on air for any newsreader; the web reader for browsing and posting is standing by.
Our URL shortener. Unmaintained upstream, so we are taking it over and bringing it back between seasons.
Two middle relays for the Tor network, with more on the horizon. No logs, no questions, no exits.
Some kind of social website. Shape still under negotiation in the Zocalo.
Where each channel lives on the station. Colour-coded, like the real thing.
Command and core. Mail, DNS, the things that must not go down.
Communications. Chat, Usenet, the BBS. The loud part of the station.
Diplomatic quarters. The social site, once the ambassadors agree on anything.
Downbelow. Half-finished, unmaintained, being revived. Watch your step.
Infrastructure and relays. Tor nodes, backups, the hum in the walls.
Entry 1We woke up with seven services and no memory of why. Investigating. The Android assures us the mail works.
BackupsNightly backups now actually run, fleet-wide. The previous crew left a scheduler queuing the wrong command for three years. We do not speak of it.
Mail cutoverMail moved to its own ship. Roanoke only forwards now and no longer answers port 25 to strangers.
ChitChat on airOur own browser chat docked and opened to the public. All systems nominal. I have taken the liberty of restarting nothing.
The hosts behind the channels. All NetBSD, all built nightly from source by the same cron job.