Backup mail server?

[John Summerfied]

Ted Beaton wrote:

> You can even avoid the whole dns thing.  If the primary server is down 
> (as in off the network), a couple things could happen.  First ifconfig 
> the backup to the ip of the primary.  Then the change is invisible to 
> both local users and the world. 

In our environment, the most likely failure is the gateway device.

For good redundancy, the backup server has to be elsewhere,

More important for many orgainsations is a backup website:;;;;;-)

Where backup is important, see the high-availability Linux project.


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John

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