Red Hat Linux Internet Server [Paperback]

Paul G. Sery (Author), Jay Beale (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764547887 | ISBN-13: 978-0764547881 | Publication Date: November 29, 2002 | Edition: 1

* Red Hat Linux X Internet Server takes the reader through all of the steps of setting up an Internet server using the Red Hat Linux operating system.
* It begins by describing Red Hat Linux networking basics, two example networks and the basics of DSL Internet connections, firewalls and troubleshooting in Part 1.This sets the foundation for all subsequent examples and provides readers with problem solving tools.
* Part 2 describes how to construct and manage a secure web server that is connected to a database. Part 3 shows the reader how to construct basic Internet services such as DNS, sendmail, FTP and Samba. Part 4 deals with advanced management techniques.
* The final part describes how to secure your network and servers. This part goes beyond the average coverage by showing advanced as well as basic security techniques and tools.
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The CD-ROM has an open-source high-availability system/server created by the author and appropriate GPL server and security software.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Your Official Red Hat Linux Guide to Internet Servers

Reviewed and approved by the experts at Red Hat, this in-depth guide delivers all the know-how you need to set up and manage a state-of-the-art Linux Internet server in a small or medium-sized business or organization.

Red Hat Linux experts Paul Sery and Jay Beale start with the basics - networking fundamentals, Internet connections, firewalls. They then show you in detail how to establish Web and Internet services, from setting up database connectivity, secure connections, and streaming media to configuring domain name, e-mail, file transfer, and resource-sharing servers. Last but not least, they provide a focused discussion of server management issues and deliver five thorough chapters with the latest advice on keeping your network secure.

This authorized Red Hat Linux guide is the one resource you need for a secure, high-performance Linux Internet server.

Proven Red Hat Linux Internet Server Solutions
* Configure either one of two example network typologies
* Connect to the Internet via cable or DSL
* Establish a stateful IP filtering firewall
* Set up Apache 2 Web server and a streaming audio server
* Connect a SQL database to the Web server and provide Secure Socket Layer Web connections
* Create DNS, SMTP, FTP, and Samba servers
* Automate network backups and increase system reliability
* Increase security with lock down, intrusion detection, and more

"Finally, what Red Hat users have been waiting for! This book gives a comprehensive array of essential topics with plenty of practical examples that will have you up and running in no time."
-Mark J. Cox, Senior Director of Engineering, Red Hat

About the Author

Paul G. Sery works for Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he designs and manages several networks for the Computer Science Research Institute. His books include Red Hat Linux Network Toolkit and Red Hat Linux 6 in Small Business.

Jay Beale is the founder and president of JJB Security Consulting as well as the lead developer for Bastille Linux, a security product used to harden Linux and HP-UX. A frequent speaker at security conferences, he is the author of Locking Down Linux the Bastille Way.

Product Details

• Paperback: 572 pages
• Publisher: *Red Hat; 1 edition (November 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764547887
• ISBN-13: 978-0764547881
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,318,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Need to setup a Red Hat Internet Server? This is the book., February 26, 2003

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Henry E. Alubowicz (Lafayette, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Linux Internet Server (Paperback)

Setting up a Red Hat Internet Server? Then "Red Hat Linux
Internet Server" is the book for you. I had previously read Red
Hat Press's "Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration"
by Collings and Wall. Though a good book, I had expected a bit
more from one blessed by Red Hat. "Red Hat Linux Internet
Server" does live up to its expectations of being blessed by Red
Hat. "Red Hat Linux Internet Server" is the better of the two
books.

This book is better focused on its subject of setting up an
Internet server and its more common Internet services. There is
lots of practical advice based on what is considered SOP for good
Unix/Linux Internet server schemes. (From my own experiences, I
did not find anything to disagree with them on and I liked their
take on learning the CLI first before going off into GUI-land.)
At least a quarter of the book is focused on security (a good
thing). I suspect this has much to do with Jay Beale, being from
the Bastille Project. Noteworthy are chapter 3 on setting up
DSL, chapter 10 on the Postfix mail server and chapter 13 doing
backups via Amanda.

If you are new to Red Hat Linux and can afford it, buy both
books. If you've been around awhile in the Red Hat world, then
Sery & Beale's book is the better choice.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Technical Errors Found, August 13, 2003

By 

Steve Amerige "www.fatbear.com" (Morgan Hill, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Linux Internet Server (Paperback)

I like the book's "get right to work" attitude, providing code that implements configurations that are not academic, but actually useful. But, once a book as adopted this philosophy, I expect that they provide correct code, or else the value significantly is diminished.

An example of this is found in Chapter 4, "Building a Firewall" in which firewall code is provided. On p. 84 (and 89-90), one sees code such as:

iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p -s $PRIV -j ACCEPT

The problem is that the environment variable PRIV has not been defined in the book (and never is). This is a "show stopper" error in the book for us. I looked to the publisher's website, wiley.com, for errata but found no support for the book. I contacted Wiley by e-mail and they forwarded us an unpublished URL:

[website]

Unfortunately, the updates (errata) section is empty and the downloads section not only has the above error in the online version of the firewall rules collection, but has additional variables that are referenced without being defined (SWCP, SRC, SON).

These types of errors make me wonder if the code in the book was properly tested... and worse, increase my concern that the code in the book in other areas will prove to be unreliable.

The errors in the book, compounded by poor website support, compel me to reduce the rating of this book to only 3 stars.

3.0 out of 5 stars Downloading the Red Hat Linux ISOs for this book (-_-), February 1, 2010

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Emanuel Spivey Jr. (Tuskegee, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Linux Internet Server (Paperback)

It appears that IF you buy a used copy of this book, you have to download the Red Hat ISO images in order to install the operating system, which happens to be RH version 7.2. As of the time that I post this comment on this, the ISOs can be downloaded at ftp://archive.kernel.org/redhat-archive/redhat/linux/7.2/en/ . I recommend using the Filezilla ftp client for the download. I wish the writers of the book HAD specified WHICH version to use somewhere need the beginning of the book.