From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 12: 7:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC7337B401 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8GJ6Wx04471; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:06:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:06:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Whalen X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Re: redundant mail servers In-Reply-To: <1868.141.149.144.170.1000640220.squirrel@claven.hwi.buffalo.edu> Message-ID: <20010916120603.T4428-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thought of just using 2 or more boxes with multiple mx records?? Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu wrote: > I'm looking to implement redundant mail servers. Load balancing would be > *very nice* considering the cost of the hardware, but redundancy is the > requirement. I would like to use freebsd, of course, but things are looking > pretty grim. Hopefully someone on the list can help me out. I have only > found one way to do this on freebsd and that is to use an application > solution such as polyserve's understudy. $3000 is a hunk of change though, > and they don't support anything past 4.1-RELEASE. Who knows what they are > going to support tomorrow, so I'm not too keen on that idea. > > The route that I would really like to take a shot at is to hook two freebsd > machines up to a multi-host scsi enclosure and use sistina's gfs for the > filesystem. The only problem there is gfs hasn't been ported to freebsd > yet. They have been promising a port for several years now, but one still > hasn't appeared. > > Anyone have any other ideas? > -rcollins > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message