Thanks Vincent, Yes, I did mean djbdns.. it was a mind typo :-)
I'll try your rpms on a test bench and swap over from bind once I understand it properly. and thankyou to everyone else that offered suggestions.. I have saved them all and will give them alot of thought over the next week or two.. One benefit of this, they are relying on my to make all the decisions.. they don't know Cisco from a bar of soap, (they are predominantly bean counters :-) so I get total control over everything.. Its great... So presently, I am looking at the following: 1. Hardware Raid (mirror) 2. Single AMD 2400XP cpus (decided to just add more servers when the load gets up.) the webserver serves about 50/50 static HTML and perl scripts.. (some mod perl) so it need atleast abit of grunt. 3. Standard 1 gig ram on all machines. I don't know yet about suitable hardware raid setups or hotswappable issues, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 2:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] FW: professional server setup... On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 05:51 AM, Franki wrote: [...] > 4. DYNDNS. I have working BIND9 installs, and I am not used to Dyndns, > but > the config pages on Bernsteins site read like gibberish to me, I want > to > edit a config file or two like with BIND.. is there a way of doing > that?? You're talking about DYNDNS then you mention djb. Which DNS software are you looking at? djbdns? And yes, you can. The data file is the "master" file. You can have multiple files and then in the make process you can cat them to the master file. For instance, I have things like zone-linsec.ca, zone-danen.net, zone-freezer-burn.org and each contains data for the domain. Then I modified the Makefile so that I could issue a "make build" that basically cats each zone-* file to a temporary file, sorts it, and then calls make to build the cdb file. IIRC, my djbdns rpms for Mandrake illustrate the same thing (I believe I modified the Makefile to have the "make build" capability). -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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