Re: [TCLUG:22990] Services needed

["Jay W. Anderson" <jwanderson@uswest.net>]

On 21 Oct 00, at 9:59, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> 
> Probably wise...  (Take a look at exim, too.)
> 
OK

> > DNS (caching or otherwise)?
> 
> If you've got your own domain, you'll probably want to run your own primary
> DNS for it and get Real-Time (or one of the free DNS services) to do
> secondary for you.  Just read the DNS-HOWTO; it's not difficult to set up.
> 

> > possibly www & ftp (not anonymous) at some point (apache & one of the
> > 	ftpd's  )
> 
> Yeah, you're probably going to want an httpd, and apache's the tool of choice
> there.
> 
My thoughts as well

> If you don't want to offer anon ftp and you're running ssh[1], take a look at
> sftp.  It's basically just the ftp protocol run over an ssh connection.  Very
> nice, friendlier than scp, and with all the security of ssh.  And it's not
> yet-another-daemon-running-as-root.
> 
I'll look into this

> [1]  You've probably heard it from Amy already, but, just in case, here it is
> from me:  DON'T run a telnetd unless absolutely necessary.  Run sshd instead.

I did know that.  But thanks for the reminder.

Anything eles that I need to think about?

Thanks, 

Jay