From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 13:14:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55FF37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ext-nj2gw-1.online-age.net (ext-nj2gw-1.online-age.net [216.35.73.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F8D43E75 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lapinski@crd.ge.com) Received: from int-nj2gw-1.online-age.net (int-nj2gw-1.online-age.net [3.159.236.65]) by ext-nj2gw-1.online-age.net (8.12.3/8.9.1/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id g97KE9ls013314; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from crdns.crd.ge.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by int-nj2gw-1.online-age.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id g97KE2Ng018707; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:14:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from exc01crdge.crd.ge.com (exc01crdge.crd.ge.com [3.1.116.47]) by crdns.crd.ge.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g97KE1S13919; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:14:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by exc01crdge.crd.ge.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3XAHRR2G>; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:13:59 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" To: "'Denny Reiter'" , Jamie Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:12:30 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org No need to try to have a mail server that will automatically failover to get the old boxes ip and what not. That is what MX records and priorities are for (and they work quite well). You may also want to have your secondary mx be at a different physical location than your primary mail server. (usually the network fails before the hardware, if built right) -mtl -------------------------------------------------- Michael Lapinski Computer Scientist GE Research "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943 ->-----Original Message----- ->From: Denny Reiter [mailto:denny@reiters.org] ->Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:45 PM ->To: Jamie ->Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ->Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions -> -> ->On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Jamie wrote: ->> ->> ->> What other suggestions do you have for building a ->reliable mailserver? ->> And is there a way to set up a couple of servers so that if ->one goes down, ->> the other automatically takes over with the same mail spool ->if possible? ->> We also need to re-engineer here, and I would like to take that into ->> consideration. Thanks! -> ->If you have the money, put the mail spool on a NetApp filer and ->export it to several identical FreeBSD systems. Then put those ->FreeBSD systems behind something like a Foundry ServerIron L4 switch ->and have it take care of the load balancing and redundancy. -> ->You'd definitely want to use Maildir for the storage of mail. -> ->Denny -> ->-- ->Denny Reiter denny@reiters.org ->So I don't hurt your feelings: happydenny@reiters.org -> www.scapegoats.org -> I know where I'd like _you_ to go today... -> ->To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ->with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message