[rescue] DNS on SS2 OpendBSD questions?

Mike Hebel nimitz at speakeasy.net
Sun Nov 10 22:31:30 CST 2002


Bill Bradford wrote:

> Should be fine, at a prior job, we had one SS2 running primary DNS and
> acting as the SMTP mail hub, while another was the company Usenet / NTTP
> server (no binary groups, of course).

Cool.  (What?  No Porn groups? ;-)

> Gotta remember that the SS2 is "about equivalent" to a fast 486, 
> except that it can handle much more I/O and is a lot stabler.  They're 
> not a quad-USII, but they're no slouch, either.  packet filtering  and 
> dns should be easy.

So basically then I'm worrying about nothing then except installation 
and security issues - at least until the site outgrows the bandwidth.

Thanks to everyone for the real-world answers!

Mike Hebel



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