Work is giving me servers

High-Performance Computing Workstations & Servers
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So my job is about to just give me a ton(2-3) really nice servers provided that I wipe the drives at our office and then take them to my house, I can do whatever I want to them! So what do I want to do? I want to build a Local version of https://ctf365.com/ Now I’ve made hacking labs before but all using the same computer and a few monitors… if you check out the link you see its hosted and you access the vms via VPN. I want something like that but locally with an outside computer as the Attacker. I want just one server filled with Vms to attack and I can attack them with my desktop or laptop. Would using http://virl.cisco.com/l be any help in making the virtual network for this project. What I aim on building is basically CTF365+OSCP type of playing field for myself and friends if needed.

any help on how I can do this would be most welcome

Also Once I use one server for that… what do you think would be a cool idea to use the other server for? maybe a NAS/PFSENSE router all in one?

Would my project work with zenserver?

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I don't know what you could do off the top of my head, but that's fuckin awesome.. Congrats dude n have fun!

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Thanks man, I can't wait till I get my hands on them its gonna be so much fun! But right now I really wanna know how I can make it into a hacking lab that I can access with a computer either on or not on the same network.

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Any idea on the specs of said servers?

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Sadly all I know is that they are dual xeons nothing else not until I get them in hand

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I work provides a free server to all of us in the data center department. But I haven't taken mind yet because I also don't know what to do with it.

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Thats cool, this is more of like I have them laying around doing nothing what should we do with them and like hey new guy you want some switches and servers

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You could run a couple gaming servers?

I would personally use them for storing all of my stuff, running a couple of game servers, and possibly hosting some of my own websites one of them would be a server like you mentioned though.. Not sure what you can really use them for though.

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Well I wasn't really asking what to use them for but more so how to do what I want with at least on of them.. I'd probably make another one a media server and all but The focus of this post is to make a hacking lab that can be accessed from the outside. I guess when I think about it it would be as simple as giving all the vms an external IP... wouldn't it?

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I suppose, but are you going to buy IP's? You can set the IP your house is currently using, but it will change from time to time.

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You mean buy static Ips? I would probably have to just to make sure they don't change on reboot or every so often etc. so I figured out how I'd be building it, I'd zenserver the servers and place all my Vms I'd then use a sonicwall with VPN connections to connect to the server. and from there you'll be able to attack the the Vms on the server

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there are many (free and paid) DDNS services that would allow external access via domain name. Nothing wrong with buying a static IP either. It depends mostly on whether you care about it enough to spend money on it :)

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Get on some render farming shit and rent them.