Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:30:31 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Mark Foster" <mark@foster.cc>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DNS and Backup Mail Server -- SOLVED Message-ID: <010a01c317d2$41f48220$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <00a601c31659$39271970$6e2a6ba5@tagalong><1052509442.11604.8.camel@gentoo1.enic.cc> <018d01c3167a$b6b2d3e0$6e2a6ba5@tagalong>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Mark Foster" <mark@foster.cc>; "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 3:31 PM Subject: Re: DNS and Backup Mail Server > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Foster" <mark@foster.cc> > To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:44 PM > Subject: Re: DNS and Backup Mail Server > > > > Your setup provides failover only if blacklamb is unavailable. Even then > > it is a manual failover (requires your intervention to fix). > > Even better would be to have an additional MX record of lower priority > > (higher number = lower priority) that would queue the mail for you in > > case of another outage. That server should be "out there" on the > > Internet. > > Thank you for your input. I don't mind the "manual failover" aspect. It's > just my own server for my own mail and receives less than 500 messages per > day (most from freebsd-*). The only time it "fails" is when I'm mucking > with it. :) In this case it was vinum config and I really screwed it up. > > > If you choose to do that, you'll need to find someone willing to do the > > backup MX hosting for you. It's really easy to setup the backup. Ask a > > friend. > > I will do that if I ever find a friend that runs a mail server. At this > time most of my friends can't even figure out how to run their mail client > on Windows. > > > Oh, and setting up postfix on blacksheep as *backup* is probably not > > what you want... but I could be wrong. If the users/aliases don't exist > > on blacksheep it might reject the mail. > > Actually I think I have this one OK as I can telnet to blacksheep on port 25 > and issue mail commands to simulate mail addressed to @mykitchentable.net > and it gets forwarded to blacklamb as is should. I should also mention that > I've been able to do this on both the 10.2 and 1.2 interfaces. It's just > that when I change the NAT entry in my router, I never see any connections > initiated to blacksheep. And unfortunately the logging facilities on the > 3Com are minimal so I don't know where the failure occurs. I found my problem. I failed to allow traffic to blacksheep's interfaces in the firewall setup (duh). :) So anyway, the concept works. Drew
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