Re: [EXIM] Failover Hosts

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Paul_Yahnig
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Failover Hosts
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 Paul_Yahnig@??? wrote:

> Hello all.....
> I am trying to set exim up to have a automatic failover if it sees that the system
> that it is sending all mail to is down. The exim box is the gateway that passes
> to a Notes server. If the notes server goes down, I want to point exim to a
> different server, can exim do this automatically? I have looked over the docs,
> and haven't seen anything with this.


Have you tried looking in the index of TFM? It doesn't have "failover",
which isn't a word I know, but if you were looking for it in the index,
you would find, at the start of the "f" section

  fail_verify
  fail_verify_recipient
  fail_verify_sender
  failing delivery, forcing
  failure of exec
  fallback_hosts    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  file 


Is "failover" a word people use? I think I have also seen "fallover",
which is again not a word I would use with this meaning. Are these in
American usage? I can easily add a cross-reference in the index, though
it won't point very far away...

In English English "fallover" tends to mean "cease to function", as in
"The !@#$%! server fell over again last night."

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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