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, wmc20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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