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On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 02:11, Troy Dack wrote: |
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> Brave Cobra wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I've been writing article on setting up a server using Gentoo 1.4 for a |
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> > windows Network. Basically it covers setting up DHCP, DNS, SAMBA, Apache |
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> > and MySQL. Some other servers, like sendmail, CVS, OpenSSL Apache server |
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> > and Squid will be included in the future. |
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> Please pick something other than sendmail, especially if you are |
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> targeting it at new comers. Postfix + procmail is a nice combo |
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> (IMNSHO), others are qmail and courier (I use courier-imap too). |
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> > The prelimenary article can be found at |
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> > http://www.bravecobra.com/docs/setupserver.html |
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> > That article is subject to change of course. |
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> > However, before I publish it to the Wide Internet world, I would like |
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> > some of you Gentoo experts to read it through and let me know whether I |
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> > told something wrong or how I could explain something better to the |
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> > newbies. Yes, it's intend to be a newbie guide. |
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> > Any further help is much appreciated. |
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> I notice that you are advocating dnsmasq because it is not as resource |
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> intensive as BIND. I'm running bind on a P200 with apache-2.0 and a |
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> heap of other crap, it does just fine. |
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> The other advantage that you have with bind9 is the ability to do |
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> dynamic dns updates on your local zone files when dhcp hands out a new |
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> lease. This makes plug and network for you local lan really easy. Any |
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> windows clients get a hostname based on the machine name, and it is |
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> resolvable by other machines in the network. |
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> If you want some sample zone and named.conf files let me know. |
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> WRT the firewall, you say that your router does most of it for you. |
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> Apart from the netfilter docs, point people to a freshmeat search for |
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> iptables firewall scripts (there are hepas of them), I'll also plug one |
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> that I have massaged from another script: |
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> http://linux.tkdack.com/module.php?mod=firewall |
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> With your mail server setup make sure that you include some sort of imap |
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> server (and note the differences between mbox & maildir and which |
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> servers use which). On a local lan it is really pointless having to pop |
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> mail from the server. Another option (if the clients are going to be |
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> Linux) is to have the home directories exported via nfs and the mail |
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> storage be in the home dir, then the linux users can access their mail |
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> with traditional clients and point the client at their home dir. I |
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> don't know of any Windows programs that can do this, so they still need |
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> a retrieval method. |
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> Thanks for the Samba<->WinXP tip, I'll have to give it a try, I've been |
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> trying to get WinXP to auth with my samba box for a while :) |
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> The proxy-config.pac file is a nice inclusion. |
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> Don't forget some comments regarding log files, setting up of sysklogd |
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> (or your prefered log daemon), rotation of log files and regular |
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> checking on log files. |
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Hi, |
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tnx for reading the article. |
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I choose for dnsmasq since it was very easy to setup and should cover |
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most of the home LAN's, but the choice of BIND should be there for the |
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more adventurious. |
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I'd love to get some sample files for BIND to be included in the |
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article. Maybe with an example for dynamic dns updates. I know there are |
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several people looking for that (read migrating from Windows NT server |
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to Linux). If you could provide me with an example? |
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And example firewall script should be included I know. Could you provide |
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me with one that takes cares of the installed servers? I'm not too good |
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at that part. That's why I bought a router ;). That would make my |
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article complete. Still have to cover the OpenSSL part of Apache(or |
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maybe that's too far fetched) and sshd. |
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As for the mail server, I guess I'd be going for Postfix then. I hope I |
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won't forget to have both Windows and Linux clients on the network. The |
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server should be able to work with both. I think I can cover that part |
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myself. But covering multiple mailservers could be interesting. Although |
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I don't have experience with most of them. |
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Does somebody have more suggestions one what to include into this guide? |
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Brave Cobra |
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Email : bravecobra@×××××××.be |
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Website : http://www.bravecobra.com |