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Nekotopia is a private network for people who want to share servers, services, and old machines without exposing them to the open internet. Access options depend on what you need and what you expect. Access to WireGuard is available via the WireGuard client o...

neko (猫) is Japanese for cat. However, the real meaning of nekotopia is not some deep reasoning or life-defining moment. In fact, nekotopia is taken from the old Silicon Graphics nekonomicon, which was itself derived from H.P. Lovecraft's fictional Necronomico...

The torus is nekotopia's private network layer. It's a mesh of WireGuard tunnels connecting members through our AWS infrastructure. Traffic between members is encrypted end-to-end; we route it, but we can't read it. When you join, you get a private IP address...

Retro enthusiasts dusting off old hardware - that 90s web server, the BBS you ran in college, the Doom WAD archive you and your friends built. Connect it to the torus and share it again, with people who appreciate it. Self-hosters running services they don't ...

We welcome the IRIXNet community to Nekotopia. Your patronage of and dedication to the place "where IRIX lives again" are well noted! Members of IRIXNet will be granted immediate access to the Torus Internet Tier class account. This level provides access to t...

Here we share some high-level technical information on the operation and design of the Torus. TLDR: The torus is not a complicated piece of engineering. The platform was built this for fun, not to obtain "military-grade" security standard accreditation. WireG...

Engineers and developers will use the Torus Pro accounts to allow 1:1 NAT or Full Cone NAT, assigning inbound and outbound access to your homelab equipment. Obviously, this introduces a significant risk for legacy equipment. Allowing inbound access to any of...

nekotopia provides the following information related to our service.

Our platform is monitored for infrastructure availability purposes. On-the-wire data is *NOT* collected, stored, read or decrypted.

Additions to the platform. Products, new services, collaborations with users, etc.

As technical nerds, geeks, homelabers and enthusiasts, we love to share our gear and our stories.

How do we better protect the access to equipment provided by and supported by enthusiasts in the community?

A lot of people spent a lot of time managing NetWare. 3.x, 4.x, even 5.x have a lot of nostalgic value.

We can all agree that a LAN is a locally connected network. Today, we probably access a network using a home wireless router. In the mid to late 90's, however, LANs were typically long runs of coaxial copper, segmented by Network Attachment Points (50 Ohm t-pi...