Advice Requested (kind of long...)

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sat Dec 23 01:35:37 2000

>Personally if I were you I'd do my own DNS as well, especially if you're
>going to be connected 24 x 7. So what you're doing is creating your own
>"POP" (Point of Presence)

I've got to agree here, while it's unlikely your ISP's DNS will fail,
having your own should allow for faster access I would think. OTOH, who am
I to talk. I've got web, FTP and mail going, but have been to lazy to
setup DNS. But then I lean towards one mondo Alpha running VMS for most of
my stuff (actually most of the exterior stuff is on one Alpha running
OpenBSD).

I see you've not mentioned a firewall, are you going to have all this
sitting naked on the internet? I *STRONGLY* recommend a Firewall running
OpenBSD!!!!!!!!!! Look at it this way, I'm a VMS type, not a BSD type, and
my firewall runs OpenBSD.

                        Zane
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Received on Sat Dec 23 2000 - 01:35:37 GMT

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