Finding my path shares much with FreedomBox. At home in the mountains, I live on a HughesNet satellite connection and hanging a server on that connection is impractical. Recently set up another connection at my home in Fairfax, VA and could not get my Buffalo router off of port 80. I had a spare Dell Dimension 2400 so I undertook to make it a server gateway. For good or evil, I live on Ubuntu and I wrote the simplest instructions I could. http://ls.net/category/topics/linux-server-class. About a dozen people have managed to replicate the experiment. Sinne tasksel does most of the heavy lifting, the process on Debian should be similar. I'd like to do this on a "green" box. I felt deterred by the marginal cost of dual nic motherboards but USB Ethernet adapters probably make that irrelevant. The price of laptops is still dropping and the issue may be moot. Still struggling with a reliable DDNS solution. BIND/nsupdate seems to be doing its job but I am noit getting proper name resolution. To me the central issue is capacity building. People with their hands on a server have a better chance of developing understanding than those who delegate that task to others. Jim -- Kindness Works! Rev. Jim Tarvid, PCA 12897A Grays Pointe Road, Fairfax, Va 22033 38.8778239, -77.392696 http://ls.net _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE