From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 13:30:44 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 4755837B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:30:42 -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 953A543E75 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:30:41 -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 g97KUdls029198; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:30:39 -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 g97KUWuG027937; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:30:33 -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 g97KUWS15147; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:30:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by exc01crdge.crd.ge.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3XAHRRQ7>; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:30:31 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" To: "'Denny Reiter'" Cc: Jamie , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:30:22 -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 Your not goign to keep them in sync, this is so you users can recieve *all* of thier mail, regardless if your primary mail server is up. It is quite easy to config netscape and other mail clients to poll multiple pop servers for new mail. I was addressing topic that others had brought up with using a netapp and sharing it between 2 boxes and having one box grab the ip of the mail server if it went down. Its great and all but like I said before, if your mail server is built well then the network turns into the failure point. And with the network being the failure point why bother having redundant mail servers in the same physical location? -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 4:22 PM ->To: Lapinski, Michael (Research) ->Cc: Jamie; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ->Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions -> -> ->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