Panix is the third-oldest
ISP in the world after
The World and
NetCom. Originally running on
A/UX on an Apple
Macintosh IIfx, Panix has gone through a number of transitions as the Internet has grown. It maintains a vibrant community of
shell
Shell may refer to:
Architecture and design
* Shell (structure), a thin structure
** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses
Science Biology
* Seashell, a hard outer layer of a marine ani ...
users and posters to its private panix.*
USENET
Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ...
newsgroups.
Panix was started as a commercial venture to fill the void created after
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...
's primary USENET connected public access system (which was donation supported),
The Big Electric Cat, ceased operations.
Today, Panix is a full-service provider, offering V-Colo virtual personal servers (VPS), mailboxes and other email services, assorted domain services, web hosting, real and virtual colocation, Internet access (T3s, T1s, SDSL, ADSL, and national dialup), and web programming and network consulting services. Panix also specializes in Unix shell access, from anywhere on the Internet, anywhere in the world.
Panix is a vocal supporter of free speech and uncensored internet access.
Network security incidents
Panix was one of the first sites to identify the 1996
SYN flood Denial of service
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host co ...
.
In 2005, the "panix.com" domain name was hijacked over a (US) long holiday weekend.
[Steven Cherry, Panix Attack: How New York City's oldest Internet service provider was hijacked and rescued IEEE Spectrum, Feb 200]
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Panix
Panix (ISP),
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History of the Internet