Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:28:35 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: <wmc20@bellsouth.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggested Books & Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20061129172517.024a8878@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bells outh.net> References: <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>
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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.
>
>
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