Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:32:22 -0500 From: John Telford <j.telford@sympatico.ca> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <38E6DB66.1C2F259B@sympatico.ca> References: <20000309034055.68220.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000309142747.M58942@freebie.lemis.com>
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I'm going through your book now and setting up a production firewall/ftp/gateway server based on it and a lot of help from an advocate of FreeBSD who is our main ISP. My unix knowledge goes back to getting a SCO xenix box running but since we didn't have a purpose for it, the project kind of died, my loss. I've been living a sheltered life on in-house LANs and GUI 95/NT for 4 years so its been a shock to say the least to point a machine at the internet in command prompt mode. Firewalls, DNS, outside e-mail etc.. I'm now at the point of setting up the box to do DNS. This server will sit on a cable ISP so I think the most basic way to do this would be to have the server just act as a forwarder to their DNS. But I would also like to set up an internal private DNS. I didn't see an example in the book (3rd edition) of how to do this, forwarder/internal DNS. Perhaps it could be added to next edition ? I'll pick up the other book you suggest ASAP. Its a good read so far, Thanks, John. Greg Lehey wrote: > n Wednesday, 8 March 2000 at 19:40:55 -0800, Cosmic 665 wrote: > >> Hello my name is Caleb Walker I am trying to learn the UNIX operating > >> system right now. I am a Windows NT Network Engineer in California. I > >> am very interested in helping others and being involved in helping > >> forward FreeBSD UNIX. Please let me know what I can do. > > > > I don't think you need to learn unix before FreeBSD. Just make sure > > you understand the diferences between system V and BSD. It would > > probably be in your best intrest to learn FreeBSD before any other > > unix OS. Since a lot of ISP's (ex. USWest, etc.) use FreeBSD. Get > > "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey (the author is often found on > > this mailing list), > > It happens :-) Usually I keep my mouth shut (Aunty Sue's orders). > > > as well as a book like "Unix Secrets" and "Uinx in a Nutshell". > > Really my book isn't for people learning UNIX, it's for people who > have some idea of UNIX who want to learn to use FreeBSD. So Caleb's > idea is, at least in theory, a good one. > > The real question is: what's a good book for learning UNIX? There > were none when I learnt UNIX, but one book I rather like is "UNIX for > the Impatient" by Abrahams and Larson (Addison Wesley). I'd be > interested in feedback from real newbies who have started out with > this book, because it will help me decide whether to continue > recommending it. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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