Dru Lavigne has another wonderful article in the O’Reilly BSD DevCenter’s FreeBSD Basics section. The aptly-titled article Building a Unix Server can be as helpful to a veteran as it is to a beginner. It’s actually been out since August 26th, but I just found it last week. I am using it as a guideline for taking a better approach to the setup of my FreeBSD servers. The article comes at a good time for me, since my last half-hearted configuration of DNS on my main server created some impressive latency in the internal network. I plan on finally following the recommendation of performing a minimal install and only adding things as needed.