UNIX System Services and Administration

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This a list of free tools and services that are useful for establishing a UNIX network environment - including DNS, Mail, Routing, WWW, News, and Security.

Services

• DNS

  • Internet Software Consortium Bind
    • A BIND FAQ
    • BIND version 9 (via ftp)
    • Setting up a basic DNS server for a domain (older, uses BIND 4 syntax)

• DHCP

  • A DHCP FAQ
  • Internet Software Consortium DHCP
    • DHCP version 3 (via ftp)
  • Problem and Solutions of DHCP (an overview - older, still useful)
  • Secure Dynamic DNS (abstract and HOWTO)

• Routing

  • BGP - Using the Border Gateway Protocol for Interdomain Routing
  • GateD (now commercial software)
    • GateD (.tar.gz various versions via ftp from rge.com)

• Mail

  • Exim (www.exim.org)
    • Exim FAQ
    • The Exim Wiki
    • Exim additional documents
      • Exim download via ftp (.tar.gz)
      • Exim mirror sites
  • Majordomo
    • Majordomo Faq
    • Majordomo (.tar.gz)
    • Problems with the Maintenance of Large Mailing Lists - RFC 1211
  • Postfix
    • Postfix FAQ
    • Postfix additional documentation
    • Postfix download sites
  • Sendmail (www.sendmail.org)
    • Sendmail FAQ
    • comp.mail.sendmail (Newsgroup)
    • Sendmail Current Release
    • Mailing list: Send "subscribe sendmail-announce" to majordomo@Lists.Sendmail.ORG
    • BSMTP for sendmail described.
    • BSMTP 1.02 for download.
  • UUCP

• WWW

  • Apache The Apache Web server.
  • Apache projects page
  • Apache Version 2.0 Documentation
    • Apache Faq Ver. 1.3
    • Apache Faq Ver. 2.0
    • To download the latest version of Apache (tar.gz)
    • Apache Virtual Hosts documentation Ver. 1.3
    • Apache Virtual Host documentation Ver 2.0
  • ht://Dig The ht://Dig search engine. (replaces dnslookup)
    • ht://Dig FAQ
  • Squid The Squid proxy server.
    • Squid Faq
    • Mailing List: send mail to squid-users-subscribe@squid-cache.org
    • Additional mailing lists
    • squid-2.5 (.tar.gz)

• News

  • Internet Software Consortium INN (InterNetNews)
    • INN Faq
    • Newsgroup news.software.nntp

Security

• BugtraqThe Unix Bugtraq Archive.
  • Mailing List: send blank email to bugtraq-subscribe@securityfocus.com.
• CERT Coordination Center
  • CERT Advisories
  • Mailing list: send email to majordomo@cert.org. In the body of the message, type subscribe cert-advisory
  • Additional CERT Advisory List Information
• Software
  • AIDE Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment.
  • Cops
  • Firewalls from Computer Security Software Etc.
  • FreeSSH (alternate ssh versions)
  • Kerberos
    • Kerberos FAQ
  • Libsafe from Avaya labs. Security against buffer overflow attacks.
  • LOphtCrack
  • Netfilter/iptables Firewalling, NAT and packet mangling for Linux 2.4.
  • OpenSSH
    • SSH FAQ
    • Downloads available for many OS'es on main page
      • ssh for FreeBSD (via ftp)
      • Directory where ssh for FreeBSD lives
  • Snort (The Open Source Network Intrusion Detection System)
  • ssh (.tar.gz via ftp from funet.fi)
  • SSH Communications Security SSH from ssh.com. Commercial SSH software.
    • ssh.com's ssh for non-commercial use

Network Monitoring and Management

• Big Brother computer and router state monitoring tool).
• CAIDA Internet performance measurement tools overview.
• ClobberD (Establishes time quotas for users)
  • Clobberd-4.16 (.tgz)
• List of traffic monitoring software
• MRTG (Router Traffic Graphing Tool)
• SNMP
  • Comp Protocols SNMP FAQ
  • SNMP at Twente University (nl)
• Snort (The Open Source Network Intrusion Detection System)