[plug] Wanted: some Telstra ADSL in Perth & Firewall advice

[Mark Nold]

Hi guys,

I'm new to this list and i'd like to ask a question or two (or three),

1. Is Telstra ADSL worthwhile? Currently i'm spending approx $70/month for a 
reliable dial-up so as long as the ADSL is reliable i'm not much worse off. But 
i like the possibility of also being able to play games like 
Infiltration/Unreal Tournament/ Age of Empires etc, is this realistic with ADSL 
in Perth?

2. Basically i was thinking of having a Pentium 120 (32Mb Ram, + 2Gb hardisk) 
Linux server acting as firewall and the machine that is permanently on. I was 
also considering putting a very tight version of Apache on (no CGI etc) to 
serve as a home page (listing our most used links etc nothing much else), plus 
maybe Squid and a mail server (no idea what though). Am i right in thinking 
that the firewall machine shouldnt have these things running on it? Or is it 
possible to do this securley as i only really wish to have one machine 
permanently on, and i dont want my girlfriend to have to turn another machine 
on/off just to check mail etc.

3. I have heard there are some very tight linux distro's designed solely for 
firewalls. Any recommendations?



Thanks alot,

mn




Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Sunday, 29 April 2001 10:50, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima 
[SMTP:tony at cantech.net.au] wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Brian Tombleson wrote:
>
> > Just a quick question on sendmail config ..
> >
> > If you add a catch-all address in the virtusertable like so:
> >
> > @mydom.com.au    postmaster
> >
> > .. where mydom.com.au is the domain I'm handling normally and have valid
> > users at.
> >
> > Will it only get to that catch-all if the delivery address is not valid
> > locally, or does this take precenence?  The doco I've read isn't very 
clear.
> >
>
>
> Nup if you add that line then ALL mail to ANYONE at mydom.com.au will go to
> postmaster.
>
> I'm fairly sure that there is a sendmail option for sending all "unknown
> address" to a perticular account ..... hang on .... Nup was wrong.
>
> In that case your could create a virtusertable file like
>
> acb at mydom.com.au	abc at localhost
> def at mydom.com.au	def at localhost
> ghi at mydom.com.au	ghi at localhost
> @mydom.com.au	    postmaster at localhost
>
>
> Than anymail that doesn't match the first 3 rules will get dumped into the
> postmaster account.
>
> This would mean one entry per user BUT they couls be generated from the
> passwd
> file.  and you could have a similar list for mailinglists.
>
>
> HTH
>
>
> Yours Tony.
>
> /*
>  * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the
>  * same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
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