Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 13:59:13 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> To: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two servers Message-ID: <20020502135645.F40446-100000@workhorse.imach.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205030509130.60517-100000@satin.sensation.net.au>
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On Fri, 3 May 2002, Rowan Crowe wrote: > Just a minor tip related to future growth: give your DNS server(s) an IP > alias each - no other services on that IP. When you have to move DNS to > another server you can simply switch the ethernet or lo0 alias to the new > server, without needing to go through the headache of changing name server > IP records with your registrar and/or needing to manually redelegate your > entire list of hosted domains. Along those same lines, configure everyone's mail with "mail.yourdomain.com", their ftp/web with "ftp.whatever.com" or "www.whatever.com" etc. etc. etc. even if they all point to the same IP Address. Then you can split mail from the web later on without a lot of pain. Ideally, you'll acually use two separate ip's and just bind the appropriate servers to the appropriate ip's (With appropriate dns records pointing at them) so a misconfiguration won't work at all. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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