Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:16:15 -0400 From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> To: "'Patrick Kelso'" <lujan@zgeek.com>, Denny Reiter <denny@reiters.org> Cc: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF30@XMB03CRDGE>
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I blame that on the software not being smart enough,
I think no one should ever have to configure their
mail client with all kinds of info about servers,
The software should figure it out on its own.
But I don't want to get started on software =)
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Michael Lapinski
Computer Scientist
GE Corporate Research & Development
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
The single point of failure is the l4 switch though. (and it did fail once. We had a spare
identically configured so even a helpdesk phonemonkey could swap it in. downtime, less than 5
minutes.)
Secondary MX should be on a seperate network and subnet. Often upstream providers can help with that,
or look at a deal with another small ISP who uses a different upstream provider to swap secondary MX
servers.
And to whoever said a well run helpdesk and support site can teach customers how to configure their
mail clients for multiple servers, I qoute Douglas Adams;
"People who design things to be completely foolproof, often underestimate the ingenuity of a complete
fool"
Spend six months on a helpdesk teaching home internet users to configure netscape mail or outlook
express to check even one account, and maintain your sanity. I dare you :)
Cheers,
Patrick Kelso
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