I've just built a new machine and installed NetBSD 1.5.2, and I'm in the
process of configuring it as a web and mail server.  I've been using RedHat
for several years now, but I'm planning to switch to NetBSD mainly because
of claims that it's more secure.  Here are a few NetBSD-newbie questions.
Thanks for your help!

NetBSD is installed on a fresh drive, and the machine is connected to my
internal network (192.168.1.xx).  From the machine's local console I can ftp
and telnet to other machines on my network or anywhere else, by name or IP.
I can ping my NetBSD machine from elsewhere on my network, but I can't ftp,
ssh, telnet or anything else into it.

I've done the "sshd=YES" thing in rc.conf, and sshd is running. However, I
still can't ssh into the machine from my RedHat or Win2000 systems.  I took
a look at "man sshd" and didn't see anything that was essential to change
from the defaults, so I haven't created an sshd.conf.  Any ideas what I've
messed up?

What's the right way to start ftpd?  I don't see a script for ftpd in
/etc/rc.d.  Is there some other way this is supposed to be done?

There may be some cases where I won't be able to use ssh to get to this
machine.  Just how unsafe is telnetd on NetBSD?

Finally, are there any good NetBSD documentation resources that aren't
linked from netbsd.org?  I've been searching around but haven't found any
massively helpful HOWTO resources elsewhere on the web.  I'd love to have
people send me links that will answer my other questions and slap me around
to RTFM.  I'll gladly try to solve my own problems given the information.

Thanks again for your help!

- Dave Melton