How about clustering e-mail server? I have this setup now. This includes
data and IP address cluster, so when first server fails, another one,
completely identical in terms of data, name and IP, pops right in. Customers
never know our main server failed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew P. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "IMail_Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 1:25 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] high availability mail server
> I would like to offer a bullet-proof mail service to high end customers.
I'm
> running BGP4 but my building could burn down. Would the following scenario
> work.
>
> importandomain.com IN MX 10 myisp.com.
> IN MX 20 backup.myisp.com.
> backupmail IN A x.x.x.x
>
>
> I would run backup.myisp.com and backupmail.importantdomain.com at a
remote
> location using DSL.
>
> If my ISP burned down, backupmail.importantdomain.com would make a ETRN
> connection to backup.myisp.com and get the mail. My client would then
> connect to backupmail.importantdomain.com to get their mail.
>
> Wouldn't this work ?
>
> Any way to make the ETRN and POP machine run on a single computer?
>
> Andrew P. Kaplan, CNE, MCSE+Internet, MCT, CCNA, CCDA
> CyberShore, Inc. -- Premium Internet Services -- http://www.cshore.com
>
>
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