Search Again: Spare MX From: Bo K. Engelbrecht Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Time: 7:35:23 am I had and (bad?) idea regarding the mailserver use and the DNS settings. As mail is very important to us I figured how to mak a insurance to make the system up and working if a catastrophe hits. Running two mailservers mirroring each other makes a mess as they are no (at least not with EIMS) simple way to synchronize accounts. So what if I specify a MX to a server that do not exist yet? Then when server one is gone with the building in one place I can just start the mail server in the other place that is ready to go to work. This means that the backup mail will never be there to receive any mail until needed when the 'number one' is gone. If I don't do this it would be a delay before an altered IP for the server would find its way through the DNS system. Would this make any sense? -- RunTime, Inc. P.O. Box 14227, SE-104 40 Stockholm, SWEDEN Phone +46-8-611-4050, fax +46-8-611-(on request) ad3@RunTime.net URL http://www.RunTime.net PGP 6609 774D 84CC 6762 C91B 4B9E 8EC7 62D7 A5B2 1714

Messages In This Thread: Spare MX by Bo K. Engelbrecht on Mar 11, 2003 at 7:35:23 am Re: Spare MX by Jeff Folk on Mar 11, 2003 at 7:49:01 am Re: Spare MX by Bo K. Engelbrecht on Mar 11, 2003 at 8:19:59 am Re: Spare MX by Jeff Folk on Mar 11, 2003 at 8:26:54 am