From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 20:52:16 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 DAB2616A40F for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmc20@bellsouth.net) Received: from imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD3D43CA3 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmc20@bellsouth.net) Received: from ibm59aec.bellsouth.net ([192.168.16.253]) by imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20061129205211.QUGT5196.imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm59aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:52:11 -0500 Received: from mail.bellsouth.net ([192.168.16.253]) by ibm59aec.bellsouth.net with SMTP id <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:52:10 -0500 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16.1 (webedge20-101-1106-101-20040924) X-Originating-IP: [12.214.235.72] From: To: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:52:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:24:18 +0000 Subject: 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: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:52:16 -0000 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.