On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Marc Matteo wrote:
> If the original DNS fail the secondaries will hold until the expiration
> period that's set in the original DNS record is met. Usually one week, no?
>
Correct.
> I can add saclug.org to our secondary DNS at the Bee but, like Brian, I
> don't know how to set up sendmail for email failover (hey, what can I say,
> the Bee uses MS Exchange for email and it ain't my department :)). I'd love
> to learn though.
>
Simple as adding a RELAY line to the access database in newer sendmails.
> It might be better to have Rick be mail1 and mail2 since he's at an ISP and
> all :).
>
> The round robin idea is a cool one but would probably cross some line with
> the folks here that pay the bandwidth bill :(.
>
Understood
> Marc
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Lavender" <brian@brie.com>
> To: <lug-nuts@saclug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] thanks to Mike for hosting saclug
>
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > I take it that in the event that the original dns fails theirs
> > will take over. As far as the mail goes, I also assume that their
> > machines will hold it until the destination machine comes back
> > online. What is the sendmail configuration to do this?
> >
> > You may as well count me in too. I take it I put in a slave dns
> > entry into named.conf.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 10:00:06PM -0800, Mike Machado wrote:
> > >
> > > Sure, if we were really good, we would setup a virtualhost on all these
> > > and do roundrobin dns, and any database stuff we can have a non
> roundrobin
> > > hostname to a primary host.
> > >
> > > Marc: you are mail1
> > > Rick: mail2 and 3
> > >
> > > I need your IP's to put in dns.
> > >
> > > Anyone else :)
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hey, we should see just how many we can get. I wonder what the record
> is?
> > > > I'll volunteer two of ours. :)
> > > >
> > > > -Rick
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Marc Matteo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > We can use one of ours as a secondary if need be...
> > > > >
> > > > > (Uh, 'ours' being the Bee's)
> > > > >
> > > > > Marc
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> > > > > Marc Matteo
> > > > > Online Technology Leader
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> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Mike Machado" <mike@cheapnet.net>
> > > > > To: "Lug Nuts" <lug-nuts@saclug.org>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:02 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] thanks to Mike for hosting saclug
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My pleasure. We should probably add a 3rd nameserver to the
> internic
> > > > > > with your server and set you to do secondary DNS as well as a
> higher
> > > > > > priority MX host. Mostly, to play with redundant services, of
> course :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I want to thank Mike Machado for getting the mailing list back
> up and
> > > > > > > running. We got cut off thursday when Jim Nessens provider cut
> him off.
> > > > > We
> > > > > > > still have the archive to configure and other stuff. In the
> meantime,
> > > > > > > I would like to welcome everyone back, and thank Mike for
> hosting
> > > > > saclug.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > brian
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