From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Aug 26 19: 7:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pendragon.tacni.net (mail.tacni.net [216.178.136.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92B6137B405 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom.oneil@tacni.com) Received: (qmail 74787 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2001 02:07:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tacni.com) (216.201.173.186) by pendragon.tacni.net with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 02:07:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3B89AB63.B2633D66@tacni.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:07:31 -0500 From: Tom ONeil Organization: Texas American Communications Network Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave VanAuken , Free Subject: Re: Frontpage Extensions - security and reliability assessment References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 FWIW - we gave up on FP on FreeBSD and put in a Win2K server. Making FP work on unix felt.... dirty, somehow. We have enough call for other M$ stuff that it became worth it to have a separate machine. Tom Dave VanAuken wrote: > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Thomas J. ONeil tom.oneil@tacni.com http://www.tacni.net "National Power, Local Presence" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message