AFNOG 2002 Workshop

Track 1 - Scalable Internet Services

This is part of the AFNOG 2002 Workshop, held in conjunction with the AFNOG meeting in Lome, Togo, in May 2002.

Acrobat Reader - Adobe's free software to read PDF files
Apache - Curently the world's most popular Web server
Apache SSL - SSL patch to Apache code. Home page. We used this in class.
modSSL - Apache SSL interface to OpenSSL
BIND - BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) page
Courier - A mail server suite that provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services.
Exim - Message transfer agent (MTA) that replaces sendmail. Scales for very large usage.
FreeBSD - Operating system of choice for this workshop
Majorcool - A Web interface to Majordomo.
Majordomo - A mailing list server
Mhonarc - Email to HTML converter. Useful for searchable archives of mailing lists.
Squid - Caching server, runs under FreeBSD. Home page.

AfNOG - Main Web site for African Network Operator's Group
Afnog Workshops - AfNOG workshop materials are located here
Network Startup Resource Center - An excellent resource of information relevant to this workshop
O'Reilly & Associates - Excellent publisher of network and network related books
RFC 2181 - Clarifications to the DNS Specification
RFC 2182 - Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers
RFC 2901 - Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure
RFC Editor - An RFC repository site
SSL Introduction - A nice introduction to SSL and what it is