On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 19:40 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I was just speculating how hard it would be to turn my Fedora > box (which is up all the time) into the central system all > my other computers go to for information (smtp, dns, imap, dhcp, > etc). > > The more I investigate, the more impenetrably obscure admin > tasks I find I'd have to become an expert at. The biggest > obstacle being that most administration howtos are written > assuming I've got a block of static IPs and am running a "real" data > center, whereas I'd want to fake all that by having sendmail > or postfix or someone talk to my ISP as though it were simply > any other mail client, and having a DNS server obtain its > info by doing client style DNS lookups, not zone transfers > and other obscure gibberish I don't understand and my ISP > probably blocks anyway. > > Are there any guides to doing stuff like this anywhere? Are > there even any lists of which obscure tools I'd have > to become expert at (I doubt I have a complete list. > Would I be likely to die of old age before I actually > got a "home ISP" working seamlessly? :-). ---- http://www.brennan.id.au/ Craig
