From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 14:41:13 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 C955437B404 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from floyd.gnulife.org (floyd.gnulife.org [199.86.41.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A4243E81 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) Received: by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 96186432C9; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:47:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D66432C6; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:47:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:47:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Jamie To: Ralph Forsythe Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021007164450.J6069-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thanks for the suggestion and the ongoing discussion. It really helps me to weigh different pros and cons and to look at different potentials for setting things up. We have all the hardware we could ask for, so I want to take the time to do this right and it isn't very often we have pretty much all the hardware we could ask for here. I appreciate all of your suggestions and dialogue. - Jamie On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ralph Forsythe wrote: > freevrrpd - in /usr/ports/net > > set up is stupid simple for it, and it allows a server to share an IP > address with one or more others, for a failover scenario. Then your only > problem becomes keeping the files sync'd on both servers at once, though > if they both bang against an NFS share that might work ok actually. Just > make that file server box as reliable as you can possible handle (high > quality components, lots of drives, etc). > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Michael DeMan wrote: > > > One way, is to setup a very reliable disk server system and export the mail > > spool as NFS. This box will do nothing but dish up files. > > > > Then, plug in a couple of mail servers with dedicated 100Mbit or 1Gbit ports > > to that NFS box. > > > > The mail servers then mount /var/mail from the NFS server. > > > > If the NFS server goes down, you're hosed, but because its behind another > > layer and not directly on the internet, its not as susceptible to attack. > > > > There is some kind of BSD fail-over tool too, that brings up a second box on > > the IP if the first box fails. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message