Greetings Gavin, I'll answer what I can
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 16:21, Gavin Spurgeon wrote: > Right Here we go then....... > > I will ask the 1st question but, I think I already know the answer.... > 1.) Can a FreeVSD Server run behind a Firewall ? > A.) No (I Think !!!!) Yes, we have boxes running FreeVSD behind a FreeBSD firewall running ipf/ipnat The only 'gotcha' with this is that DNS needs to be aware of the internal IP addresses, otherwise you'll end up with some weird mail behavior. This could be accomplished with split view DNS or servers on the outside with external information and servers on the inside with internal information and forwarders to the servers on the outside for domains they aren't authoritative for. If this is a new installation I would say split view is the way to go ( bind 9 plus I believe ) We were in a situation where we already had densly populated name servers that were external. We didn't realize there was a problem till a customer referred a friend to us, they then tried to e-mail each other and it wouldn't work... I tried re-configuring Sendmail on vsd servers to use hosts then bind, with no luck. Sendmail seemed intent on using DNS for the name resolution. Instead of re-inventing the DNS servers on the outside as bind 9 servers inside, we opted to put a single authoritative name server inside the firewall, configured all servers inside the firewall with that box as the primary nameserver. Problems went away... > > 2.) Is the FreeVSD project still active ? > I know that this list is.... But is the project ? > Will there be a New version released ? > I believe the project is still alive. You can aquire more recent versions via anonymous CVS than the tarballs that are on freevsd.org > 3.) How do I get MySQL working on ALL VS's ? > I have looked @ the FAQ's on http://www.fubra.com/vsdfaq/ > Witch is a VERY VERY Helpful site....... (This list would be a LOT Longer) MySQL is installed by default into ALL virtuals. As soon as you 'boot' a virtual for the first time, the initial databases are setup with default permissions as if it was a fresh install of MySQL into any other environment. > > Right.... > >From this point on its ALL about 'VSDADM' the PHP Admin site...... > 4.) Is there any other versions of VSDADM available that I can download and work >with ? We are using the version of vsdadm that is accessible from the ftp site. We haven't had any problems with it per say. There were a few minor tweaks we made, but are happy with the results at this point. > > 5.) I need LOTS and LOTS of help with the DNS section of the site... > I can tern it On..... But then I have tried to get it working with no joy.... > I have created the correct DNS Records in my Test environment for >ns0.serve.net & ns0.serve.co.uk > But I still get the message that there is a problem communicating with the >Name Servers.... > Any Help would be appreciated with this one..... > We aren't using the DNS portion of FreeVSD so I can't help on this one. =( We have some other automated utilities in place that take care of our DNS stuff. > 6.) Is there any way to Automatically make a VSDADM user when a VS is created on >the FreeVSD Server ? > I need a way of making a VS witch will then create a VSDADM user Or visa-versa >? > Is the a method of doing this with a Script of some sort? You could likely write a utility to do this. It's just a matter of inserting values into the vsdadmsite database. We have some php tools running on a different system that manages this sort of thing (as well as the DNS tolls I mentioned above) > > There are more questions I have but I think this is a start.... > Any help will be MUCH appreciated... > > Thanx to all > Hope this helps Rob ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
