Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 14:08:58 -0800 From: Brian Raynes <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us> To: Karun <karun@dambiec.com> Cc: freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What I plan to use freebsd for. Was (Re: FreeBSD Books) Message-ID: <3B7066FA.7A012000@dnr.state.ak.us> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108071719230.10791-100000@lcd.efn.uncor.edu> <3B705769.D1BD0924@dnr.state.ak.us> <3B70589E.D6B2553A@dambiec.com>
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Karun wrote: > > I'm planning to use a computer running freebsd, as a server for my adsl > modem and also for dambiec.com, which the ip is updated using a dynamic dns > client. The server will have to keep attempting to connect to the internet > when it is disconnected and update the ip for the domain once reconnected. I > also plan to use a firewall on the server, and apache as well as an email > server. > > Karun Dambiec FreeBSD can do that type of mission well. I'm not actually sure on the dynamic dns, I don't have adsl yet. The regular userland ppp client handles that and I think it includes the pppoe client. You'd have to ask a question about that on freebsd-questions. I've never needed a web server at home, but it will not be much different than linux and I have set that up at work for an internal help request server. It wasn't too bad, for an complete apache newbie, like myself. I personally liked OpenBSD for setting up a firewall, but I'm not sure what their support for adsl is like, except that they have support for pppoe. Again, I don't have it yet, so I haven't looked that hard at it. OpenBSD recently dumped IP Filter from their current branch, but the last release, 2.9, still includes it as the packet filter. FreeBSD has support for IP Filter, but defaults to IPFW. From things that I've read on packet filters, I preferred the stateful inspection of IP Filter, but FreeBSD docs do not really cover it much - you'll have to look to IP Filter's own how-to and docs to figure out how to configure them. However, they're pretty good, so it shouldn't be too hard on Open or FreeBSD. As to your earlier book question, Ted Mittlestaedt's book might be just the ticket, but I haven't yet read the portions on apache or dsl connections, if there is a section on dsl even??? Except for the adsl stuff, most of the tasks you mention are best covered by other general Unix books, IMO. Apache, the Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly and Associates, will probably provide more useful info than the FreeBSD docs on Apache, except for possibly the location of certain files. I haven't looked at O'Reilly's Sendmail book, but I've been told it is good. A book that covers lots of Unix stuff, including Sendmail, would be Unix System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, et al. The latest version has information specific to Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD, I bet it would be a great book, I have the previous version and it is very practical and useful in general. Hope that helps, Brian Raynes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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