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Date:      Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
To:        <rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: redundant mail servers
Message-ID:  <20010916120603.T4428-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <1868.141.149.144.170.1000640220.squirrel@claven.hwi.buffalo.edu>

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Thought of just using 2 or more boxes with multiple mx records??

Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity


On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu wrote:

> I'm looking to implement redundant mail servers. Load balancing would be
> *very nice* considering the cost of the hardware, but redundancy is the
> requirement. I would like to use freebsd, of course, but things are looking
> pretty grim. Hopefully someone on the list can help me out. I have only
> found one way to do this on freebsd and that is to use an application
> solution such as polyserve's understudy. $3000 is a hunk of change though,
> and they don't support anything past 4.1-RELEASE. Who knows what they are
> going to support tomorrow, so I'm not too keen on that idea.
>
> The route that I would really like to take a shot at is to hook two freebsd
> machines up to a multi-host scsi enclosure and use sistina's gfs for the
> filesystem. The only problem there is gfs hasn't been ported to freebsd
> yet. They have been promising a port for several years now, but one still
> hasn't appeared.
>
> Anyone have any other ideas?
> -rcollins
>
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