----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Newland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:34 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: MSN problems??
> While I'm here, is there any formal downtime reporting done by these > guys (or any of the big boys)? I can say for AOL at least, that there should never be down time. The servers are in groups, and so servers 1, 3, 5, 9, and 11 would get maint and during that time servers 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 would be doing the work of the others. Even for web hosting we do that. See below for how inbound mail is.... and you'll see in the stuff below that DNS is even redundant in the same way. The only time we would be down is when something goes -very- wrong. This can happen, but not on a schedule. Everything we build is built around never going down. aol.com MX preference = 15, mail exchanger = mailin-01.mx.aol.com aol.com MX preference = 15, mail exchanger = mailin-02.mx.aol.com aol.com MX preference = 15, mail exchanger = mailin-03.mx.aol.com aol.com MX preference = 15, mail exchanger = mailin-04.mx.aol.com aol.com nameserver = dns-07.ns.aol.com aol.com nameserver = dns-01.ns.aol.com aol.com nameserver = dns-02.ns.aol.com aol.com nameserver = dns-06.ns.aol.com mailin-01.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.136.57 mailin-01.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.137.89 mailin-01.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.137.184 mailin-01.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.138.57 mailin-01.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.138.152 mailin-01.mx.aol.com internet address = 152.163.224.26 mailin-01.mx.aol.com internet address = 205.188.156.122 mailin-02.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.138.120 mailin-02.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.136.89 mailin-02.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.136.121 mailin-02.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.137.89 mailin-02.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.137.184 mailin-02.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.138.89 mailin-03.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.138.120 mailin-03.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.136.217 mailin-03.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.137.121 mailin-03.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.137.152 mailin-03.mx.aol.com internet address = 64.12.138.57 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
