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1.104 david 22: The term "users" has several connotations. <em>End users</em> often
1.47 ian 23: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
24: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
25: is with one of our
26: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
27: <p>
28: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
1.56 louis 29: and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These <a
1.65 jufi 30: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38 louis 31: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56 louis 32: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
33: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
34: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
35: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
36: security features hard to resist.
1.113 mbalmer 37: Even <a href="#gov">governments</a> from different countries pick OpenBSD
1.114 ian 38: for securing their vital informational infrastructure.
1.56 louis 39: <p>
1.38 louis 40:
41: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
42: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
43: <br><br>
44:
45: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
46: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
47: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 48: <hr>
49:
1.112 ian 50: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="gov">Governments</a></font></h2>
51: <ul>
1.117 grunk 52: <li><a href="http://www.humanrights.gov.au">Human Rights and Equal
53: Opportunity Commission, Australia</a><br>
54: Established in 1986 and based in Sydney, HREOC is an independent
55: statutory organisation which administers federal laws relating to
56: alleged human rights breaches and discrimination. The Commission is also
57: responsible for human rights education and the investigation and
58: conciliation of discrimination and human rights complaints. OpenBSD is
59: being utilised to offer various network services.
60: <p>
61:
1.112 ian 62: <li><a href="http://www.moptt.cl/">Ministerio de
63: Obras Públicas del Gobierno de Chile</a><br>
64: The Public Construction Ministry of the Republic of Chile runs
65: a national WAN and use OpenBSD for their firewalls and link loadbalancers,
66: based on
67: pf.
68: They have been using OpenBSD since the year 2001, and selected the OS
69: so they could sleep well at night without fear of being hacked.
70: <p>
71:
1.121 grunk 72: <li><a href="http://www.culturayturismo.gov.co/">Instituto Distrital de
1.127 wvdputte 73: Cultura y Turismo</a>, Bogota, Colombia<br>
1.121 grunk 74: In this government agency, OpenBSD is essential: perimeter firewalls,
75: network intrusion systems, bandwidth managers and a mail filter gateway
76: that uses spamd and some other OpenBSD tools keep their network secure.
77: <p>
78:
1.112 ian 79: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
80: México</a><br>
81: This government agency uses OpenBSD to protect its
82: network and for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD-based VPN
83: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.
84: <p>
85:
86:
87: </ul>
88:
1.79 jufi 89: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
90: <ul>
1.27 ian 91:
1.95 millert 92: <li><a href="http://www.ospedalimantova.it">Azienda Ospedaliera, Mantova, Italy</a><br>
93: Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma" is the largest health institution in
94: the province of Mantova (Lombardia) with six hospitals and other small
95: ambulatories. OpenBSD was chosen for its reliability and now serves as
96: the bridging firewall between the WAN and the main Hospital of Mantova.
97: We use pf and altq for firewalling and QoS applications, and use fwanalog
98: to generate WAN traffic statistics.
1.94 millert 99: <p>
100:
1.96 millert 101: <li><a href="http://www.belperschool.co.uk">Belper School, Belper, Derbyshire, UK</a><br>
102: The Belper School uses OpenBSD machines as Samba file servers for around
103: 1100 students as well as for student web hosting and a firewall/NAT gateway.
104: <p>
105:
1.124 deanna 106: <li><a href="http://www.capitol-college.edu/">Capitol College</a><br>
107: Capitol College is the only independent college in Maryland
108: dedicated to engineering, computer science, information technology
109: and business. Capitol College is a regionally accredited institution
110: offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as
111: professional development training and certificates. They use OpenBSD
112: for a variety of functions, from serving their website, protecting
113: their network with the PF firewall and QoS, Intrusion Detection
114: monitoring, and hosting their internal Certificate Authority.
115: <p>
116:
1.97 millert 117: <li><a href="http://elm.eu.org/">ELM consortium, Biocomputing Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany</a><br>
118: The ELM consortium runs the The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Database and uses
119: OpenBSD for the consortium's communication servers.
120: <p>
121:
1.104 david 122: <li><a href="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</a><br>
123: ENEP Iztacala is one of <a href="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</a>'s peripheral
1.58 louis 124: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
125: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
126: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
127: <br>
128: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
129: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
130: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
131: <br>
1.65 jufi 132: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 133: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
134: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
1.109 grunk 135: mirror.
1.58 louis 136: <br>
137: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
138: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
139: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
140: <br>
141: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
142: <p>
143:
1.94 millert 144: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
145: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
146: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
147: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
148: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
149: <p>
150:
1.66 jufi 151: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
152: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
153: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
154: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
155: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
156: <p>
157:
1.60 louis 158: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
159: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
160: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
161: <p>
162:
1.116 grunk 163: <li><a href="http://www.lockss.org/">The LOCKSS Program</a><br>
164: ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"), Stanford University Libraries, uses a
165: <a href="http://lockss.stanford.edu/david1.htm">network appliance</a>
166: based on a modified version of OpenBSD that boots and runs from CD.
167: Over 100 of these appliances are running in libraries around the world.
168: They collect and preserve materials published on the web,
169: including academic journals, theses and dissertations, cultural
170: collections and government documents.
171: <p>
172:
173: <li><a href="http://www.pwg-unna.de/">Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule, Unna, Germany</a><br>
174: This German comprehensive school educates students of ages 10 to 19 years old.
175: The school offers Computer Science classes and provides laptops to students.
176: <br>
1.118 grunk 177: Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule has been using OpenBSD routers since 2003 and
178: since December 2005, all servers run OpenBSD exclusively.
179: The wireless network uses authpf.
1.116 grunk 180: They chose OpenBSD for its security and its powerful packet filter.
181: <p>
182:
1.94 millert 183: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
184: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
185: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
186: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
187: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
188: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
189: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
190: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
191: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
192: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
193: <p>
194:
1.56 louis 195: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
196: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
197: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
198: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
199: <p>
1.43 deraadt 200:
1.128 ian 201: <li>The <a href="http://www.rcmusic.ca/">Royal Conservatory of Music</a><br>
202: The RCM in Toronto, Canada is a 120-year-old national cultural
203: institution with an alumni base of around 800,000 Canadians who have
204: either studied through its system of teachers and examinations or taken
205: music lessons based on the RCM curriculum.
206: Recently, they have been branching out into other areas of the arts.
207: The RCM also operates its own
208: <a href="http://www.frederickharrismusic.com">publishing house</a> and an
209: <a href="http://www.rcmexaminations.org">online examination
210: scheduling service</a> for its students.
211: <p>
212: They operate a heterogeneous network that incorporates an IBM i520
213: (successor to the AS/400), multiple Sun boxen, Windows machines, and some
214: FreeBSD systems.
215: The first use of OpenBSD is to provide a secure router for the IT lab;
216: other applications are coming.
217: <p>
218:
1.119 grunk 219: <li><a href="http://sese.asu.edu/">School of Earth and Space Exploration,
220: Arizona State University, USA</a><br>
221: SESE uses OpenBSD for nearly every public-facing server we manage.
222: Being an academic institution, many of our systems run OpenBSD/sparc
223: and OpenBSD/macppc, including the public FTP/HTTP/AnonCVS server
224: <tt>mirror.sese.asu.edu</tt>. We also abuse OpenBSD on a number of
225: authpf'ing firewalls, proxies, and monitoring (nagios, cacti, nut, etc).
226: <p>
227:
1.56 louis 228: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
229: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
230: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
231: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
232: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
233: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
234: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
235: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 236: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 237: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
238: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
239: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
240:
1.126 deanna 241: <li><a href="http://www.ucdavis.edu/">The University of California, Davis</a><br>
242: OpenBSD is used extensively in Schools, Colleges, and Departments at UC
243: Davis as part of the campus firewall solution. Additionally, OpenBSD
244: servers provide instructional lab fileserver redundancy with CARP, serve
245: up web content in Zope/Plone, proxy websites with Squid, and provide
246: networking services such as dhcp and DNS (djbdns).<p>
247:
1.96 millert 248: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
249: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
250: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
251: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
252: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
253: <p>
254:
1.56 louis 255: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
256: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
257: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
258: for many intensive research projects.
259: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
260: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
261: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
262: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
263: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
264: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
265: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
266: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
267: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
268: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
269: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
270: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
271: their primary operating system. <p>
272:
273: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
274: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
275: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
276: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
277: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 278:
1.56 louis 279: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
280: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
281: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 282: <p>
283:
1.82 millert 284: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
285: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
286: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
287: supports more than 1,000 students.
288: <p>
289:
1.92 millert 290: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 291: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 292: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 293: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 294: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
295: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 296: <p>
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1.79 jufi 300: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
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1.79 jufi 302: <ul>
1.56 louis 303: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
304: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
305: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 306:
1.43 deraadt 307: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
308: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 309: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 310: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 311:
1.107 nick 312: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
313: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
314: for infrastructure purposes.
1.120 tom 315: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of its flagship
1.107 nick 316: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
317:
1.123 deanna 318: <li><a href="http://www.cebatech.com/">CebaTech</a><br>
319: CebaTech Inc. develops tools and intellectual property modules that accelerate
320: the development and realization of software algorithms and complex communication
321: protocols into silicon. CebaTech uses OpenBSD as the source for development of
322: hardware modules that go into chips and FPGAs.<p>
323:
1.43 deraadt 324: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
325: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
326: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 327: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 328: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
329: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 330: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 331:
1.125 deanna 332: <li><a href="http://www.demosphere.com/">Demosphere International, Inc.</a><br>
333: Demosphere International, Inc. provides secure member registration, credit card
334: processing, and statistical content for soccer clubs, leagues, and national
335: governing bodies. OpenBSD is employed for redundant firewall failover capability
336: (CARP and pfsync), as well as dedicated servers for syslog (including webalyzer),
337: DNS, and email broadcasting using Postfix.<p>
338:
1.135 reyk 339: <li><a href="http://www.esdenera.com">Esdenera Networks GmbH</a><br>
340: Esdenera Networks is a vendor of OpenBSD-based security appliances,
341: virtual firewalls, and SDN products.<p>
342:
1.131 schwarze 343: <li><a href="http://www.genua.eu/">genua mbh</a><br>
344: genua, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 345: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
346:
1.56 louis 347: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
348: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
349: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
350: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
351: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
352: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
353: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
354: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
355: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
356: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
357: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 358:
1.94 millert 359: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
360: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
361: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 362: <p>
363:
1.123 deanna 364: <li><a href="http://www.loligo.com/">Loligo Cache Systems</a><br>
365: Loligo Cache Systems uses OpenBSD as a <em>'fire-and-forget'</em> platform for
366: hosting web, mail, and streaming video services. <i>"OpenBSD has provided us
367: with more than 10 years of worry-free infrastructure support and excellent
368: performance, with an ethos that just makes more sense to us than any
369: other platform."</i><p>
370:
1.94 millert 371: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
372: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 373: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
374: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 375:
1.123 deanna 376: <li><a href="http://www.netthruput.com/">NetThruPut, Inc.</a><br>
377: NetThruPut, Inc. is the North American leader in internet-based
378: crude oil trading systems. OpenBSD is used for its fail-over abilities,
379: as well as bridging, intrusion detection and connecting remote offices
380: and users securely.<p>
381:
1.56 louis 382: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
383: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
384: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
385: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
386: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
387: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 388:
1.56 louis 389: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
390: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
391: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 392:
1.123 deanna 393: <li><a href="http://www.talkplus.com/">TalkPlus</a><br>
394: TalkPlus provides advanced Voice 2.0 services over mobile networks. The
395: company uses OpenBSD as secure mail and DNS platforms, in various places
396: where there are requirements of exposing systems to the public Internet.
397: <i>"We've found that OpenBSD had the best ease of installation and high
398: security we were looking for."</i><p>
399:
1.94 millert 400: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 401: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.120 tom 402: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to its speed,
1.94 millert 403: stability, and security.<p>
404:
1.78 millert 405: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
406: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
407: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
408: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
409: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
410: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 411:
1.56 louis 412: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
413: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 414: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 415: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
416: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
417: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
418: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
419: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
420: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
421: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 422: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
423:
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1.1 jkatz 425:
1.79 jufi 426: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 427: <p>
428: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
429: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
430: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
431: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 432: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 433:
1.71 ian 434: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 435: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.133 bentley 436: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
437: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
1.70 ian 438: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
439: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
440: <p>
441:
1.94 millert 442: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
443: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
444: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
445: behind the scenes security functions.
446: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
447: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
448: security services."
449: <p>
450:
1.110 grunk 451: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
452: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
453: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
454: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
455: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
456: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
457: and very consistent, we love it.
458: <p>
459:
1.56 louis 460: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
461: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
462: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
463: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 464: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 465: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
466: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 467: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
468: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
469: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
470: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
471: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
472: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
473: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
474: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
475: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 476: <p>
477:
478: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
479: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
480: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
481: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
482: sites such as
483: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
484: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
485: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 486:
1.80 jufi 487: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 488: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
489: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
490:
1.94 millert 491: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
492: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
493: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
494: routers.
495: <p>
496:
1.80 jufi 497: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 498: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 499: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
500: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
501: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 502: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 503:
1.122 grunk 504: <li><a href="http://www.reverse.net/">Reverse.Net (former Elixor Networks)</a><br>
505: Reverse.Net uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
1.56 louis 506: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
507: <p>
1.25 angelos 508:
1.56 louis 509: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
510: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 511: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 512: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
513: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
514: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
515: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
516: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 517: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
1.138 mmcc 518: handles email storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 519: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 520:
1.63 louis 521: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
522: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
523: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
524: <p>
525:
1.43 deraadt 526: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 527: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 528: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 529: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
530: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
531: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
532: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 533: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
534: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 535: <p>
1.34 deraadt 536:
1.94 millert 537: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
538: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
539: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
540: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
541: to offer services.
542: <p>
543:
544: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
545: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
546: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
547: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
548: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
549: pharmaceutical firm.
550: <p>
551:
1.56 louis 552: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
553: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
554: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
555: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
556: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
557: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
558: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
559: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
560: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
561:
1.111 grunk 562: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
563: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
564: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
565: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
566: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
567: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
568: for rent.<br>
569: M5 has many customers who use these
570: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
571: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
572: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
573: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
574: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
575:
1.105 ian 576: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
577: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
578: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
579: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
580: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
581: from government and private sector.
582: <p>
583:
1.94 millert 584: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
585: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
586: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
587: <p>
588:
1.80 jufi 589: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 590: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
591: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
592: sites.<p>
593:
594: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
595: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
596: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
597: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
598: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
599: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
600: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
601: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
602:
603: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
604: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
1.138 mmcc 605: DNS and over 1000 email users in their community just West of
1.56 louis 606: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
607: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
608: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
609: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
610: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
611: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
612: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
613: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
614:
1.61 louis 615: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
616: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
617: <p>
618:
1.101 jose 619: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
620: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
621: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
622: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
623: <p>
624:
1.129 tobias 625: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
626: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
1.76 millert 627: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
628: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
629: keystone in our security strategy."
630: <p>
631:
1.94 millert 632: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
633: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
634: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
635: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
636: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 637: <p>
638:
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