Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 18:04:32 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: wildcardus freakis <wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Moving to 3.0 Message-ID: <XFMail.981204180432.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981204094333.12329A-100000@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>
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On 04-Dec-98 wildcardus freakis wrote: > If I changed to 3.0 would my kernel config files still be > aplicable or would I have to go and reconfigure them again? Also I have > FreeBSD 2.2.8 running natd as my primary firewall...I am wanting to create > a redundant secondary, I need some input as to how I should do > this...should I run NFS between them...is there a utility that will allow > the IP to be changed to Primary/NotPrimary or should I run them with > nonchanging IP's...the reason I am asking is that if I don't have them > change IP's I have to go back throughout some 1000 machines and add a > secondary gateway... 1) 3.0 is NOT stable, it is STILL CURRENT stuff, in other words, although it appears to work stable for the most of us CURRENT users there are still bugs lurking ye might want to avoid on production machines such as nameservers and firewalls 2) simple trick depending on a 2 NS and 2 FW/GW set-up in the DNS entry have a gw.domain.net entry which is the entry to the outside world, also have a gw2.domain.net for the non-primary server (might be used for other uses) when the IP assigned to the first name goes down simply supply the IP of the back-up server in the A and PTR records and be done with it... Users will only notice a short period of unavailablity when ye discover the machine is down until ye fix the IP address... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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