Re: Suggested Books Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to [re]design a small business network with FreeBSD. I know that's a pretty broad topic -- I'm not looking for a simple answer, so much as reference materials. Background: for over 5 years we've had our business running with a few FreeBSD servers. An external Internet connected box serves smtp, imap, http, ftp, dns (external and LAN internal) and http-proxy. Another server (on LAN behind NAT router) has Samba file print services, lpd and some other things. I guess what I'm looking for is best practice suggestions for configuring all this optimally. Problems we have currently include DNS -- if the Internet connection goes down, the server chokes, and we can't even get internal DNS. And security issues, eg: should the email accounts reside on an Internet-exposed server? O'Reilly sells Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit which sounds like some of what I'm looking for, except that it's for Linux -- but I've dabbled with that kludge enough to probably apply the concepts to FreeBSD ;) Any other suggestions on good books, web sites, etc? Hi. A book that covers both the OS and the services into real detail would be like a a few thousand pages - there is no such thing. For DNS, you need the Cricket Book (DNS and BIND), for other services you need other books. However, a combination of the FreeBSD handbook and the usually excellent man pages takes you a long way! For the mail server, if you need connectivity from outside, yes, you need to expose it, if not, mail can just be routed to the insisde. Properly set up there should not be a problem exposing it though - most mail servers are built to do just that. As the administrator it's your obligation to keep the stuff updated so that any security holes are fixed before too late. I should have mentioned that the O'Reilly book takes you quite a long way - after all, we are cousins. / ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suggested Books Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD
Hi Guys, I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to [re]design a small business network with FreeBSD. I know that's a pretty broad topic -- I'm not looking for a simple answer, so much as reference materials. Background: for over 5 years we've had our business running with a few FreeBSD servers. An external Internet connected box serves smtp, imap, http, ftp, dns (external and LAN internal) and http-proxy. Another server (on LAN behind NAT router) has Samba file print services, lpd and some other things. I guess what I'm looking for is best practice suggestions for configuring all this optimally. Problems we have currently include DNS -- if the Internet connection goes down, the server chokes, and we can't even get internal DNS. And security issues, eg: should the email accounts reside on an Internet-exposed server? O'Reilly sells Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit which sounds like some of what I'm looking for, except that it's for Linux -- but I've dabbled with that kludge enough to probably apply the concepts to FreeBSD ;) Any other suggestions on good books, web sites, etc? -Wayne B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggested Books Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD
You can make your FreeBSD servers your DNS servers and configure them to look upsteam to your ISP's DNS servers for servers not known. I prefer to buy and use printers with built-in networking that support PCL and Postscript. So clients can just send jobs to those printers directly. -Derek At 02:52 PM 11/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to [re]design a small business network with FreeBSD. I know that's a pretty broad topic -- I'm not looking for a simple answer, so much as reference materials. Background: for over 5 years we've had our business running with a few FreeBSD servers. An external Internet connected box serves smtp, imap, http, ftp, dns (external and LAN internal) and http-proxy. Another server (on LAN behind NAT router) has Samba file print services, lpd and some other things. I guess what I'm looking for is best practice suggestions for configuring all this optimally. Problems we have currently include DNS -- if the Internet connection goes down, the server chokes, and we can't even get internal DNS. And security issues, eg: should the email accounts reside on an Internet-exposed server? O'Reilly sells Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit which sounds like some of what I'm looking for, except that it's for Linux -- but I've dabbled with that kludge enough to probably apply the concepts to FreeBSD ;) Any other suggestions on good books, web sites, etc? -Wayne B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggested Books Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to [re]design a small business network with FreeBSD. I know that's a pretty broad topic -- I'm not looking for a simple answer, so much as reference materials. Background: for over 5 years we've had our business running with a few FreeBSD servers. An external Internet connected box serves smtp, imap, http, ftp, dns (external and LAN internal) and http-proxy. Another server (on LAN behind NAT router) has Samba file print services, lpd and some other things. I guess what I'm looking for is best practice suggestions for configuring all this optimally. Problems we have currently include DNS -- if the Internet connection goes down, the server chokes, and we can't even get internal DNS. And security issues, eg: should the email accounts reside on an Internet-exposed server? O'Reilly sells Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit which sounds like some of what I'm looking for, except that it's for Linux -- but I've dabbled with that kludge enough to probably apply the concepts to FreeBSD ;) Any other suggestions on good books, web sites, etc? Hi. A book that covers both the OS and the services into real detail would be like a a few thousand pages - there is no such thing. For DNS, you need the Cricket Book (DNS and BIND), for other services you need other books. However, a combination of the FreeBSD handbook and the usually excellent man pages takes you a long way! For the mail server, if you need connectivity from outside, yes, you need to expose it, if not, mail can just be routed to the insisde. Properly set up there should not be a problem exposing it though - most mail servers are built to do just that. As the administrator it's your obligation to keep the stuff updated so that any security holes are fixed before too late. Just my SEK0.02 Per olof ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggested Books Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to [re]design a small business network with FreeBSD. I know that's a pretty broad topic -- I'm not looking for a simple answer, so much as reference materials. Background: for over 5 years we've had our business running with a few FreeBSD servers. An external Internet connected box serves smtp, imap, http, ftp, dns (external and LAN internal) and http-proxy. Another server (on LAN behind NAT router) has Samba file print services, lpd and some other things. I guess what I'm looking for is best practice suggestions for configuring all this optimally. Problems we have currently include DNS -- if the Internet connection goes down, the server chokes, and we can't even get internal DNS. And security issues, eg: should the email accounts reside on an Internet-exposed server? O'Reilly sells Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit which sounds like some of what I'm looking for, except that it's for Linux -- but I've dabbled with that kludge enough to probably apply the concepts to FreeBSD ;) Any other suggestions on good books, web sites, etc? -Wayne B. Wayne, If you've been using FreeBSD in production for five years, you are probably well beyond any O'Reilley offering, imho. We can all benefit by (yet) another look at man topic, and that's probably gonna be your most productive resource, since it will allow you to address your specific issues without having to read any ol' dumbed-down version of the documentation :) As for DNS issues, my thought is that if your external DNS server works then leave it alone and implement a separate internal DNS server to handle your internal traffic. Just start with the same configuration you have on external and tweak it as needed. It doesn't have to be authoritative. Also you are likely also running DHCP, which I'd recommend you move from your external DNS server to the new internal DNS server (if that is your current setup). Usually 2 cents, but free for you! lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
