Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:47:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> To: Ralph Forsythe <rf-list@centerone.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <20021007164450.J6069-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210071353210.23370-100000@blue.centerone.com>
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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.
>
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