From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 23:29:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F9016A416 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-227-250.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1967843CA6 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:29:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kATNSipM057877; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:28:44 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20061129172517.024a8878@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:28:35 -0600 To: , From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bells outh.net> References: <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Suggested Books & Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:29:18 -0000 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, wmc20@bellsouth.net 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 "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >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.