Thus spake VaibhaV Sharma:
>If I was in ur place man!!! I would DEFINITELY have gone for the second
>option.
That's not the issue - and he'll still have a huge scope for R&D running
an ~intranet~. However, when maintaining a local mail and web server
connected to the net 24x7 there are dozens of other issues - not the least
of which is lousy bandwidth.
If I had a rupee for the number of timeouts I've seen trying to mail junta
at various .in domains I'd be filthy rich by now. ERNet is likely to give
them a UUCP pipe to the net - and their UUCP pipe (and the sendmail they
are running) are as full of holes as a sieve.
Even if ~you~ run a secure sendmail 8.9.3 [1] you expose yourself to
several huge security holes by default, plus their equipment is usually
rather old, and frequently up today and down tomorrow.
[1] There are those who claim that sendmail is totally insecure, use qmail
etc etc - am not getting into that now <g>
Besides which, there's the issue of frequently screwed up DNS, no rDNS etc
etc when you host an Internet server here.
> I suggest if u have ample amount of time to experiment DO GO
> FOR THE second option and let us (LI list members) be with
> you while you manage the things.
Tell you what - set up an ~intranet~ to cache pages (say course material)
on your local webserver and maintain that. Use external mail and web
servers to communicate with the outside world.
That adds a whole new scope for even the most diehard R&D guy - besides
which, running a production system - an internet mail / web server for
example - is not the place for R&D. Maintaining constant (and hassle
free) service is paramount here.
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