Re: Setting another machine as a firewall

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mohamad Babaei wrote: > i want to set another machine as a firewall for my mail server to prevent > receiving huge number of spams each day. > so, how shuold i change my DNS to do this ? Hmmm... I don't think a firewall is really the right technology to achieve what you desire. A firewall (in th

Re: Setting another machine as a firewall

2007-01-03 Thread Peter Nyamukusa
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 11:34, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > i want to set another machine as a firewall for my mail server to prevent > > receiving huge number of spams each day. > > so, how shuold i change my DNS to do this ? Also note that port 25 on the firewall should be open, either acceptin

Re: Setting another machine as a firewall

2007-01-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
> i want to set another machine as a firewall for my mail server to prevent > receiving huge number of spams each day. > so, how shuold i change my DNS to do this ? Have your MX reccord to point to the firewall mail server. But before you do that, you should make sure that the firewall is set-up

Setting another machine as a firewall

2007-01-03 Thread Mohamad Babaei
Hi, i want to set another machine as a firewall for my mail server to prevent receiving huge number of spams each day. so, how shuold i change my DNS to do this ? Regards, Mo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail