On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:04:05PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > I'm looking at the possibility of consolidating some servers for a client. > > If an internal box with DNS and squid were combined, would this be a > security risk... as in risky way above normal?
Try OpenVZ and run your applications in separate containers. > How about a DNS, squid and web server with multiple name based virtual > domains on the same box? I certainly wouldn't put virtual web servers on the same logical box as DNS and Squid. > Is doing the above really dangerous on a fully patched and up to date > system? What's the worst that can happen? Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
