While I mostly agree, simply doing a 'yum update' against the CentOS repos
will pull you up to 5.9...which isn't really old, it was released around
the same time as 6.4. Then at least your base OS is up to date, and you
don't have to use the community RPMs. You can build from source, generate
you
On 10/10/13 4:26 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> CentOS does put
> bug and security fixes in (or RedHat does and CentOS gets them because
> they build from RHEL source) but you still end up with something very
> old (BIND 9.3.x) that most folks on this list don’t want to talk about
> because it is lon
Any reason why you’re using CentOS 5.7 given that 6.4 (and maybe later) is
available?
if this is a new system you really ought to think about use the 6.x stuff.
5.x is long in the tooth even though still supported it has many older upstream
packages of things including BIND. CentOS does put
An unwise decision, from security point of view !
You are about to open the DNS channel - public DNS resolving available for
internal clients.
Consequently data leakage, file transfer in/out over DNS become possible ...
As far as the question about internal fake zones is concerned :
if the name s
Hi
I do that and more on an ATOM machine with 2GB RAM. I use Postfix
instead of qmail but see no reason qmail would not work.
I installed all the relevant RPMs, configured them and it works.
One thing to remember is that you need two or more DNS servers, I do
that by being a stealth master with
Hi All,
I am running Centos 5.7 32 bit server machine.
I have installed and successfully run qmail,web,ftp with the same machine.
Now am DNS hosting with third party. I would like to install and keep DNS
hosting myself.
How to do that , How to install Dns server with the same machine or
different m
(This is probably a silly question, but I
want to explore every possibility.)
We have a proxy firewall, with no contact
between inside and outside. We have a fake
internal DNS root for zones that we use
internally. This works fine, since lookup
of external names are only made from the
outside of t
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