From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 26 13: 3:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93ED037B417 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:03:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1QL3QK06803; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:03:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05373; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:03:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C7BF7A4.E571BEFA@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:01:24 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new FreeBSD mailing list References: <3C7AFCED.ADDE60EE@centtech.com> <20020226093250.A1369@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3C7BEF25.C1EEB8AD@centtech.com> <20020226204420.GA2629@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > I am not sure how much traffic such a list would generate. > > In terms of new lists, I suggested long ago, that the number of > questions on filtering/firewalls/nat and all points east generated on -questions > could easily justify it's own mailing list. Since this is clearly > one of the most confusing, most ill-understood, and frankly > insufficiently documented areas of FreeBSD .. and yet one of it's most > important. I have twice suggested to Crist Clark he write a book on it.. > I think he told me he was once approached to do so. But sadly no such > book exists. There are lots of bits of paper flying around the net with > recipes, suggestions, partial explanations etc. But there is no-where > a coherent in-depth discussion of it all. > I must be missing your point, since there IS a -security list, which contains those items. I'm subscribed to a bunch of lists, and every one of them gets the performance issues and questions like "sorry if this is the wrong list to post this question to, but I'm not sure where else to post it..". -questions is a good mailing list, but it's chatty, and ends up being more beginner level questions, instead of specific tweaks and performance modifications, tests, benchmarks, etc. These things CAN be documented, and SHOULD be, and I'd love to do that, but it won't fit in a man page, and is not static enough to be a basic text file someone wrote up a year ago. With each release, comes slightly different tuning and tweaking needs, and with each purpose and use of FreeBSD, comes more variations. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message