Atlantic's NT-based Solutions

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Atlantic is pleased to offer complete site Internet integration solutions, based solely on Windows NT! Atlantic has hand-picked a suite of solid NT-based Internet application servers for core applications--news, DNS, SMTP mail handling, FTP, and more. We bundle these together with capable NT-based firewalls to create comprehensive NT Internet site solutions.

The Best Tools For The Job

Every site needs a firewall and an information server. Usually, these are separate computers--the firewall provides a screened, private interface to the Internet; the information server invites outside connections.

Together, the firewall and information servers provide a suite of facilities for Internet site integration:

: Domain Name Server; FTP server; WWW server; SMTP mail server; USENET news server; Firewall security

The trick is to select the best tools, integrate them into a seamless connectivity suite, and apply them with the expertise between the Internet and your internal network.

FireWall

To start, we need a firewall. Atlantic's NT security solutions center about two high-quality firewalls: CheckPoint Software, Inc.'s NT-based FireWall-1, and Raptor's Eagle NT.

FireWall-1

FireWall-1 provides CheckPoint Software Inc.'s proven stateful inspection security model, plus virtual private networking, challenge/response proxies for common applications, and a powerful, distributed user interface. Learn more about FireWall-1.

Eagle NT

Eagle NT is a time-tested, transparent proxy firewall featuring a comprehensive Windows NT gui, virtual private networking, Eagle's Suspicious Activity Module (SAM), and complete logging and challenge/response capabilities. Learn more about Raptor's Eagle NT.

Domain Name Server -- MetaInfo's DNS

Our choice in domain name servers is MetaInfo's adaptation of BIND 4.9.2. Underneath, configuration looks much like that of a traditional UNIX nameserver. On top, however, MetaInfo's GUI takes the pain out of zone updates and maintenance. What's more, the latest version (2.0) ties DHCP service and name service together; dynamically assigned addresses can co-exist with DNS.

Eagle comes with a DNS server--a quality port of industry-standard BIND 4.9.3. An additional, second, internal DNS server is often called for as well.

FTP Server -- Serv-U

Serv-U is a terrific NT FTP server, supporting classes of user, time of day access, limits, and anonymous FTP. All administration is done via a capable NT services GUI.

USENET News Hub -- DNEWS

DNEWS is more capable, and easier to administer than any of the UNIX-based news servers we have ever used! The administrator can set up hierarchies, clients, and peer servers, all from a compelling NT services GUI.

Additionally, DNEWS provides a sucking feed facility; rather than have an upstream sight speculatively push news onto your server, DNEWS's sucking feed can draw off just the articles that are in demand. This saves resources in every way--bandwidth, disk space, and news processing overhead.

SMTP Mail Hub -- Sendmail

You may have an enterprise SMTP hub picked out already (e.g Exchange), or have a LAN/SMTP mail gateway in place. Consider, however, that though it is possible to pass SMTP traffic directly to an internal LAN/SMTP gateway, you may still want a mail processing agent on the firewall to control access, and provide a general capability for address rewrites; mail processing on the firewall provides a first line of defense. Atlantic is currently recommending a late version of crufty old sendmail, available with a GUI front-end from MetaInfo. Why sendmail? Though a challenge to configure, sendmail is the most powerful mail transport agent available.

Web Server

Given the great variety of web servers available, and the unique requirements of each of our customers, Atlantic does not recommend a single, specific Web server. In those cases where customers are undecided, however, we will be happy to help out.

What Next?

Call Atlantic for a quote. We can provide a firewall, or turn-key your whole environment.

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