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by **Christopher Neufe** » Tue, 21 Dec 1999 04:00:00

I just finished moving our office network to a new domain. I figure
that my experiences might be helpful to others who want to create a Net
presence for their small offices, so I prettied up our internal
documentation on the notes and made them into a HOWTO. This is very
preliminary, and has pretty heavy emphasis on the particular design
choices which I made in setting up my office network. I would like
comments and criticisms, in particular any subjects I have left out, or
places I provided too much or insufficient detail. For now, the document
is available at:

http://caliban.physics.utoronto.ca/neufeld/Domain.HOWTO/DOMAIN.HOWTO....

The abstract reads:
"This document outlines the things you will probably have to do when you
want to set up a network of computers under your own domain. It covers
configuration of network parameters, network services, and security
settings."

The source is in SGML format, so if people would rather see it in some
other format, let me know as well, it's easy enough to generate from the
SGML. Thank you.

Please send any comments to:

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by **Greg Leblan** » Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:00:00

> I just finished moving our office network to a new domain. I figure
> that my experiences might be helpful to others who want to create a
Net
> presence for their small offices, so I prettied up our internal
> documentation on the notes and made them into a HOWTO. This is very
> preliminary, and has pretty heavy emphasis on the particular design
> choices which I made in setting up my office network. I would like
> comments and criticisms, in particular any subjects I have left out,
or
> places I provided too much or insufficient detail. For now, the
document
> is available at:

http://www.veryComputer.com/

Quote:
> The abstract reads:
> "This document outlines the things you will probably have to do when
you
> want to set up a network of computers under your own domain. It covers
> configuration of network parameters, network services, and security
> settings."

> The source is in SGML format, so if people would rather see it in
some
> other format, let me know as well, it's easy enough to generate from
the
> SGML. Thank you.

Which DTD did you use to create this? LinuxDoc or DocBook?

In section 3, I don't think it's a particularly good idea to use a block
of private IPs for the external numbers, somebody is going to get
confused. I'm not sure what to suggest as an alternative course, right
offhand, but I'll think about it some more.

In section 4.1, you mention that 2 or three IP addresses will not be
available to the outside world, and while this is true, it can be
misleading. My home networking server has a 255.255.255.0 netmask, but
I only have 1 IP on this network. I suspect that this will often be the
case for DSL connections. For dedicated lines, the customer may recieve
a subnet of their own, with say 2 useable IP addresses. That is to say,
there will be 2 IP addresses in the range that can be assigned to
network devices of one sort of another, 1 for the local
router/firewally/proxy machine, and one for the gateway at the other end
of the link.

That's all I've got at this moment, but I haven't finished reading it
yet, and I want to go home. Later,
Greg

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by **Marc-André Duma** » Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Why not a part about moving a domain?

Christopher Neufeld a crit:

> I just finished moving our office network to a new domain. I figure
> that my experiences might be helpful to others who want to create a Net
> presence for their small offices, so I prettied up our internal
> documentation on the notes and made them into a HOWTO. This is very
> preliminary, and has pretty heavy emphasis on the particular design
> choices which I made in setting up my office network. I would like
> comments and criticisms, in particular any subjects I have left out, or
> places I provided too much or insufficient detail. For now, the document
> is available at:

> http://caliban.physics.utoronto.ca/neufeld/Domain.HOWTO/DOMAIN.HOWTO....

> The abstract reads:
> "This document outlines the things you will probably have to do when you
> want to set up a network of computers under your own domain. It covers
> configuration of network parameters, network services, and security
> settings."

> The source is in SGML format, so if people would rather see it in some
> other format, let me know as well, it's easy enough to generate from the
> SGML. Thank you.

> Please send any comments to:

> --

> Home page: http://caliban.physics.utoronto.ca/neufeld/Intro.html
> "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity"

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Asking for comments on new HOWTO, setting up a new domain

Asking for comments on new HOWTO, setting up a new domain