On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Rio wrote: > i assume here you mean because there would be 2 copies of > each mailbox with no control over which copy a user reads.
yes > the mail server software (surgemail) has built-in 2-way > mirroring that updates each other within milliseconds of a > change.. This has always been a bit of a problem. I didn't know about surgemail. I see it's not GPL/FOSS. I can't imagine it would be too hard to add this to GPL mailservers. >> You'll need two if you want failover. > > failovers of directors, but if, say, one director handles > 2 ips for 2 identical services on 2 servers, if one server > goes down does that not do auto-failover for the real > server portion? there's too many "servers" in there. You can failover one-by-one individual services running on the realservers too if that's what you're asking. That is also handled by external packages like mon, ldirectord and keepalived. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
