From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 27 6:22:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inu.net (mail.inu.net [63.151.4.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E21F37B405 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 06:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from buckhorn.net [63.151.3.239] by inu.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A97D114F01A8; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:22:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3B8A4965.5484BA3B@buckhorn.net> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:21:41 -0500 From: Bob Martin Reply-To: bob@inu.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave VanAuken Cc: BSD-ISP Subject: Re: Frontpage Extensions - security and reliability assessment References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave VanAuken wrote: > > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > Recently have had a few requests for frontpage support. We are entirely FreeBSD > Server based and I dread the thought of installing an NT/2k Server on our > network to support these requests. > > Reviewed Frontpage extensions and a myriad of security, reliability, and general > discontented reports. Have also tracked down some helpful resources like the > rtr.com site. > > The general feeling is that adding FP extensions is going to create a security > and support headache. > > Looking for feedback, install suggestinos, particularly good resources, hacks, > patches, and anything else that may help us make an accurate judgement on this. > > FreeBSD boxes for the most part have performed without a hitch under a wide > range of setups and hacks... Would hate to comprimise this just to support a > few "developers" using a Micro$oft product. > > TIA > > Dave We have been running FP on Apache for some time now. Never a hitch. We recently moved 2 domains to a NT 2000 box as the customers wanted VB support. They where less than pleased by the performance hit the extensions took. While we could move all of our FP customers to NT, we keep them on Unix because the provisioning is much simpler.... Well, at least for us 8^) -- Bob Martin, CTO InterNet Unlimited http://www.inu.net mailto:bob@inu.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message