Advice Requested (kind of long...)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Dec 23 04:27:00 2000

On Dec 22, 23:35, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> On Dec 22, 22:12, Chuck McManis wrote:
> >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.

I'm sure it will. If you don't want to run your own primary/secondary
yourself, at least run one on the mail server(s); it will make quite a
difference if you handle any volume of mail. That's why we run four:
primary, secondary, and one on each of staff and student mail servers.

> 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.

Definitely!

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sat Dec 23 2000 - 04:27:00 GMT

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