Am Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 19:02 schrieb Kory Krofft: > Eric and Joey, > > Let me toss in some additional thoughts on the expansion of the > leaf distro. I do not think it completely qualifies as an embedded > system but a year ago with the help of this list I created a mini > DMZ webserver. My main reason for wanting such a system was to have > my own mail server to bypass all the size and quota restrictions of > my ISP. This server used ez-ipupdate and had qmail.lrp as the mail > server. I removed shorwall and used weblet as the web server. It > served a basic set of html pages where could post photos of family > interest and file I wanted to transfer to friends or work. > The system was all leaf booting from a CD and used the hard drive > for web content and mail storage only. If I was ever hacked, all I > had to do was reboot and the system was restored. If the persistent > storage on the hard disk was compromised I could restore it from my > windows box /samba connection in seconds. At worst, I would lose 24 > hours of mail. I considered even issuing an init 6 from cron daily > just to keep the hackers at bay. > Alas, the demise of my plan was spammers. Due to many spammers > using varible IP addresses, many ISPs filter mail from specific > blocks of IP addresses as spam so I had many of the email messages > I sent rejected. But the system worked great, was extremely > portable and even hardware failure really did not present a problem > since any pc with the right NICs would replace it in an instant. So > I see a valid use for an expanded LEAF distro. Yes there are other > mini distros out there but I am familiar with leaf.
Kory; an interesting use of a LEAF CD. I ran into the same pb as you did (spammers using dynamic ip) - and bought a domain from an ISP for about 1$ per month providing a mail-relay - much cheaper than a fixed ip. kp ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
