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09 May 2007 09:00

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And PostgreSQL | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

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This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a PostgreSQL database instead of real system users. I could not find any tutorial like that on the internet, so when that configuration finally worked for me, I decided to publish it. The documentation is based on FreeBSD 6.2 which I was recently forced to use (I usually use Debian). Nevertheless the document should be suitable for almost any Linux distribution as well (may require very small amendments).

07 May 2007 09:00

Creating A DNS Cache With djbdns | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

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Building a local DNS cache will speed up your internet connection since the time for the translation job (converting domain names into IP addresses) will become negligible with the assumption that the DNS cache gets the information from the parent DNS.