Re: Suggested Books & Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD
- From: Lane <lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:32:43 -0600
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:52, wmc20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Guys,Wayne,
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.
If you've been using FreeBSD in production for five years, you are probably
well beyond any O'Reilley offering, imho.
We can all benefit by (yet) another look at "man <topic>," and that's probably
gonna be your most productive resource, since it will allow you to address
your specific issues without having to read any ol' dumbed-down version of
the documentation :)
As for DNS issues, my thought is that if your external DNS server works then
leave it alone and implement a separate internal DNS server to handle your
internal traffic. Just start with the same configuration you have on
external and tweak it as needed. It doesn't have to be authoritative. Also
you are likely also running DHCP, which I'd recommend you move from your
external DNS server to the new internal DNS server (if that is your current
setup).
Usually 2 cents, but free for you!
lane
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