From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 2 23:57:05 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 92ED616A403 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 23:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE9C43C9D for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 23:56:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com Message-ID: <457212CB.3060309@intersonic.se> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:56:59 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per olof Ljungmark References: <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> <456E21E2.6070809@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <456E21E2.6070809@intersonic.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, wmc20@bellsouth.net 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: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:57:05 -0000 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > 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? > > 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. /