Re[2]: [Scottish] Debian

[Mark Robinson]

Hello Colin,

Friday, 04 October 2002, you wrote:

CM> Mark Robinson wrote:

>>Talking of debian, there are a number of things that I'm not sure
>>about/haven't had time to investigate...
>>  
>>
CM> Don't know about Debian, but....

>>1) What firewall packages are people using
>>
CM> Firestarter - simple enough for me to understand and seeems reasonably 
CM> secure.

Thanks, I'll look it up

>>2) Does isdn work ok?
>>
CM> with Linux? Yes. With a demand dial setup, the dial-up is immediate and 
CM> you're instantly on-line. I don't know how well channel bonding works 
CM> though - I've got a box with a Fritz (BT Hgihway) card providing access 
CM> at a remote site on a single channel. You might want to put something 
CM> like diald in front of the interface as a lot of programs generate 
CM> unnecessary DNS lookups (e.g. even if you setup sendmail to defer all 
CM> internet Email, it still tries to resolve hostnames on receipt of 
CM> messages).

I'm using ISDN on Linux, in fact good ISDN support was the reason I
chose SuSE.

>>3) Is a stable amavis/sendmail available?  I can only see it in testing not
>>stable
>>  
>>
CM> When I had such a beast (Amavis 0.2) it was very stable, although a 
CM> little sluggish.

Again I'm using it on lots of SuSE servers, but I was having trouble
finding info about it on Debian :-(


 Mark