On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> * An idle backup machine. Our backup machine is quite a capable box,
> and it may cause problems if people don't understand what it is there
> for (seeing it as wasted resources).
You don't need to have one "master" and one "backup" just for mail
hubbing. They can be equals. If they have the same MX priority, or are
accessed via two A records, you should find that traffic is split
between them. We use 4 hosts like this for the cam.ac.uk domain.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
