At 2:13 pm -0500 3/3/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't know much about proxies; is there some nifty way for a user to
> connect to a large mail-server, have the server tell the user's machine
> "your mail is actually on server03", and then redirect the POP/SMTP
> requests to the correct PC without having all of the resulting traffic
> pass through one machine? This would allow you to load-balance by
> moving mail accounts around without inconveniencing the user.
surely, if your user accounts are dealt with by NIS, and their home directories
mounted via NFS,
then it doesn't matter which of the cluster they connect to?
Or is there a 32K+ limit on NIS user ids as well?
Peter.
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