Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 16:08:20 -0500 From: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Domain mail question Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20020208155526.0098ee20@pop.netzero.net>
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Ok, I'm deathly curious about this. Since we're going to be doing some more consolidating sometime soon again I'm curious about something. Personally I've never had to do this so I have zero experience with this. Right now we're running one domain per server, hence one mail domain per server. But what I'm looking at doing to reduce the number of active servers is to take a group of our smaller sub-domain's and combine all of the POP3 and SMTP mail services, apache/IIS, and Samba services and port them all to one FreeBSD 4.5 machine. Now here's the catch. Part of them are NT/2000 boxes. The part about moving those over I'll figure out on my own. What my question is, is how do you run multiple domains off of one server? Like where before you had each domain on a separate server all by themselves, I need all of those domains to all point to one machine. Here's the basic list of what I am wanting to do. 1. Have up to 23 different network names all pointing to one machine. AKA when you type "\\guarvo" or "\\skywalker" as the network machine name, I want them to all go to one machine rather than each individual machine. 2. I want things for the internal web to work the same way. So that "staff.domain" and "sales.domain" and "shipping.domain" all have their own unique IP address's, yet all point to the same machine. 3. Same thing for mail. So when a user types in "mail.domain1" for their outgoing mail server, or incoming, either one, and another user types in "pop.domain3" they both are getting their mail from the same server, even though the IP's resolve differently. In sort I guess what I'm asking for is to figure out how to make it so that one machine can take on up to 250 unique IP's and/or identities, and keep them all straight and separate so that the one machine actually looks like as many as 250 other machines. The idea is to consolidate as many machines as possible into one without any interruption in service to the users and it needs to be as seamless as possible so that nobody knows the difference come monday morning. If you got a tutorial, point me too it. I'll take that too. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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