From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 16:18:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB1437B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rshea@thecubagroup.com) Received: from sheasili (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f2J0Iis59249 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:18:44 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <200103190018.f2J0Iis59249@deborah.paradise.net.nz> From: "Richard Shea" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:20:17 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Firewall + Mail Server on same machine - is that OK ? Reply-To: rshea@thecubagroup.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi - I've currently got a FreeBSD box which I use as a firewall machine (using IPFW) and to do NATD. I'm thinking of setting up a mail server and I would certainly want to do this under FreeBSD but I feel like I've heard that having, for instance, a mailserver on the same machine as the firewall is not a good idea. Could anyone comment on this ? It seems to me that if someone was able to get through the firewall in the first place putting the mailserver on another machine wouldn't necessarily help all that much ? Am I missing something here ? I'd be interested in peoples comments. thanks richard shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message