FOSS Network Infrastructure and Security/Further References

The most useful resource for further reading is the Internet. Here are some useful sites on the Internet. Resources on the Web General reading/references a. Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org> b. IOSN <http://www.iosn.net> c. Linux Documentation Project <http://www.ldp.org>, <http://www.linuxdoc.org> d. Internet Standards and RFCs <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs> e. Internet Society / NSRC Workshop Resources <http://www.ws.isoc.org> f. Network Startup Resource Center <http://www.nsrc.org> g. UNESCO Free Software Portal <http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/index.shtml> h. Networking and Information Technology Observatory <http://www.sdnp.undp.org/observatory> - click on the “open source” theme. Linux software download and documentation a. Source Forge <http://www.sourceforge.net> b. Kernel .org <http://www.kernel.org> c. Freshmeat <http://www.freshmeat.net> d. RPMFind <http://www.rpmfind.net> e. DNS/BIND <http://www.isc.org/bind> f. Sendmail <http://www.sendmail.org> g. SSL <http://www.openssl.org> h. SSH <http://www.openssh.org> Security-related sites a. Security Focus <http://www.securityfocus.com> b. CERT <http://www.cert.org> Forums a. Slashdot <http://www.slashdot.org> b. Linux Online <http://www..linux.com> Events a. APRICOT <http://www.apricot.net> b. NANOG <http://www.nanog.org> c. AfNOG <http://www.afnog.org> d. SANOG <http://www.sanog.org> e. O’Reilly Open Source Conference <http://www.oreilly.com> Useful mailing lists a. ISP-Linux <http://www.isp-linux.com> b. NANOG <http://www.nanog.org> c. AfNOG <http://www.afnog.org> d. SANOG <http://www.sanog.org> e. NSP Security Mailing List <http://puck.nether.net/nsp-sec> List of FOSS most commonly used by ISPs Operating system Debian Linux <http://www.debian.org> FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org> Accounting authorization authentication Cistron Radius <http://www.radius.cistron.nl> FreeRadius <http://www.freeradius.org> Freeside <http://www.sisd.com/freeside> Domain Name Server BIND <http://www.isc.org/products/BIND> MAIL servers and related software Sendmail <http://www.sendmail.org> Exim <http://www.exim.org> CourierImap <http://www.inter7.com/courierimap> SpamAssassin <http://www.spamassassin.org> Majordomo <http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo> Web -related software Apache <http://www.apache.org> PHP <http://www.php.net> Proxy and caching servers Squid <http://www.squid-cache.org> Security-related Iptables <http://www.netfilter.org> Snort <http://www.snort.org> OpenSSH <http://www.openssh.org> OpenSSL <http://www.openssl.org> Network management system MRTG <http://www.mrtg.org> Netsaint <http://www.netsaint.org> Nmap <http://www.nmap.org> Ntop <http://www.ntop.org> Browsers and e-mail clients Firefox Internet Browser <http://www.firefox.com> Mozilla <http://www.mozilla.org> Thunderbird E-mail Client <http://www.firefox.com> Books Linux Books tends to get obsolete very quickly. But they are still a handy reference, when your access to the Internet is limited. O’Reilly Books Practical Internet and UNIX Security Linux in a Nut Shell Building Secure Servers with Linux DNS and BIND Essential System Administration Linux Security Cookbook Network Troubleshooting Tools Other O’Reilly books on FOSS are also highly recommended. Other Books Unix Unleashed. System Administrator’s Edition. India: Techmedia. Special Edition - Using Linux. 3rd Edition. India: Prentice Hall of India Ltd. Tanenbum, A. Computer Networks. Prentice Hall. Free BSD References The FreeBSD handbook is a full guide on FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-communication.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking.html