Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:48:55 -0700 From: Alex Huppenthal <alex@comsys.com> To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@complx.LF.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 10,000 plus /etc/passwd file - NIS+? Message-ID: <36F11257.691DE923@comsys.com> References: <m10Nau9-000zyTC@complx.LF.net>
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We are a mid-sized ISP, using FreeBSD for email, pop3, web hosting and dialin authentication. We're designing a set of systems that will handle up our current customer base, around 5,000 up to 10,000. FreeBSD's password file is a database, so I'm assuming lookups are relatively fast. My question is, has anyone used NIS or NIS+ or Bind to manage password files? We're about to start testing with our 5K user base, looking for performance and efficiency, and fault tolerance/high availability. The requirements are duplicate, in-sync copies of password/authentication files so that radius can run on at least 2 servers... Our historic approach as been to rsync off-line hot standby systems. This is simple, inexpensive and with one command and a reboot we can swap our failed unit out. The new system will tolerate a failure of one of our servers. Thoughts on this? Alex Sopris Surfers, LLC Carbondale, CO To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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