From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 13:21:33 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 97A8137B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alistair.scapegoats.org (alistair.scapegoats.org [64.40.92.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2413E43E6A for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from denny@alistair.scapegoats.org) Received: by alistair.scapegoats.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 01D7A243; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:21:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:21:30 -0500 From: 'Denny Reiter' To: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" Cc: Jamie , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <20021007202130.GL30821@reiters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Uptime: 3:16PM up 41 days, 12:10, 8 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.06, 0.01 X-Pooftas: No X-Message-Flag: This message flagged by The Department of Homeland Security X-PGP-Key: http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x997F9D70 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:12:30PM -0400, Lapinski, Michael (Research) wrote: > 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) I didn't think we were discussing MX records. That's fine for incoming mail to your users, but does nothing to help your users send or receive mail. And while having separate physical locations would be great for network failures, how are you going to keep the mail spools in sync? -- Denny Reiter denny@reiters.org So I don't hurt your feelings: happydenny@reiters.org www.scapegoats.org Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message