> Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Can I have one Linux box working as my name server, web server, proxy > server, mail server, and ftp?
no :) ...but you can be like me and have a linux box that does: ftp server ssh server irc client(screened) firewall NAT server(not to be confused with firewall) DNS server(actually 3 of them, each doing different things) NFS server proxy server(squid+adzapper) imap server pop3 server smtp server(+antivirus scanning) game server(unreal tournament) web server network monitoring server(NOCOL) vpn client the occasional X windows session but i don't usually have X loaded at all times on this box. thats one of the things i love about linux...is having dozens of things going at the same time. the above machine runs on a k6-3 400 256MB ram. unlike certain other systems linux(in my experience) does not suffer when you add more services on it. an example of a system that does suffer which i experienced first hand over the weekend was a sun ultra 10 running solaris 7, puked hard because too many things were running on the box, the machine wasn't even 6 months old(of the 6 months only 4 were production) and it died a horrid death(the root drive anyways) on saturday. linux rules for multipurpose servers. of course it depends on your load, the average DNS/WWW/POP server should be able to run off a slow 586 without problems. up until about a year ago i ran an isp off a p100 96megs which did pop3/smtp/www/dns/ftp/ssh/irc/etc. ran great .. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
