From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 11 19:29:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA16703 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA16677 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id TAA16165; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:28:43 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:28:43 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: drgboc@accnorwalk.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up an isp on bsd In-Reply-To: <34B97BA3.1690@accnorwalk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 drgboc@accnorwalk.com wrote: > To give you an idea of the level of my panic, I am by far the >most >knowledgeable person on staff to set up and run an ISP, and I have no >idea where to start, other than I think FreeBSD can do it. > Ok, so with that said: > > 1. Am I right in thinking FreeBSD can do the job? Yes, Yahoo! uses FreeBSD and so is one of the biggest local ISP, Best Internet (www.best.com). You can also do many other things with FreeBSD then just to run ISP :) > 2. Is it possible that a non-programmer can do the job with a >good deal of hard work? Yes. You don't have to be a programmer to manage a Unix box, even though it would help. > 3. Who can I ask my specific ISP/Mail Server/Web >Hosting/Security/Hardware questions? You can ask FreeBSD questions on questions@freebsd.org, but you can also read documentation. For ISP check out www.amazing.com/internet For mail take a look at www.sendmail.org For Web go to www.apache.org For Hosting -- do you mean web hosting? See www.apache.org For Security -- FreeBSD is more secure then most other OSes, but once in a while we do have bugs. Nobody is perfect. Subscribe to freebsd-security-notifications@freebsd.org to be able to get latest security news. For Hardware take a look at www.sysdoc.pair.com for some good hardware reviews. If have question if a particular piece of hardware will work under FreeBSD, take a look at these: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html There is also freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, you might want to subscribe to it if hardware is a big concern for you. > 4. Can you recommend any publications to assist me in my >endeavor? Yes, buy ORA books (www.ora.com) and read documentation on www.FreeBSD.org -- there is a lot of good tips and information there. >5. Or am I just whistling Dixie? Sorry, since English is not my first language, I have no idea what or who "whistling Dixie" is. :) > >Keep in mind, I have no choice in this. I have to get this done with or >without FreeBSD. You better stick with FreeBSD. Yahoo! and Best.com did -- you can't go wrong. Also, don't mind asking questions, but do read documentation first. -- yan