General DNS - How to have everything on one box (webserver,ns,smtp,pop,etc).

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9i4r9g$91n at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
lg042-5 <lg042-5 at dial.oleane.com> wrote:
>Use CNAME.
>
>On the other hand, using a unique machine for both web,smtp,dns... is not a
>very good idea.
>Both of these services present security weaknesses.

If he only has two machines, how many choices does he have?  Small
operations generally can't dedicate a separate machine for each service.
Security has to give way to pragmatism.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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