Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:49:55 +0200 From: Olivier Cortes <olive@deep-ocean.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FREEBSD MAIL TOASTER CLUSTER Message-ID: <20010723204955.B63865@APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wa> In-Reply-To: <20010723114531.21106.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>; from freefabri@yahoo.it on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:45:31PM %2B0200 References: <20010723114531.21106.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:45:31PM +0200, Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: > Hello all,I have to realize a Mail Server > (Pop3,Imap,WebMail) for about 4000 people. > I decided to use FreeBSD 4.3 with > Q-mail-Vpopmail-CourierIMAP-SQWebMail, but I have a > problem. > Is it possible with FreeBSD to make a "cluster" of two > machines (ix86) that when one goes down for some fault > the other takes care of the service so that Mail is > still available? i've got NO experience in clustering FreeBSD, but you could build a Third machine wich exports NFS for the two that will serve POP/WEB... the NFS server will serve only disk access, and would be not likely to have problems (it could be on a local net, insensible to probes and attacks). if someone gets the point of my idea, i will greatly appreciate comments on it because i'm in the way of building such a config (at home for now). in a global way, some tips about how to make more FreeBSD servers cooperate will be appreciated too. One (or more) URL would be cool. regards to the gurus :) (and others too) olive --- Olivier Cortes free software admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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