On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Those are good reasons for having parallel MXers. Only when the
> "backup" server cannot handle 1/2 the load normally should it be given a
> lower-priority MX.
Also if the "primary" is where lots of mail is finally delivered, it may
be useful to give the backup lower priority. (On the otherhand, depending
on the nature of connections, it might be useful to do the opposite in
that situation).
> Of course in this case all MXers are still under direct and hopefully
> immediate control of the same administrators so can enforce the same
> access controls
Of course. It absolutely has to function when the primary is down, But
should get as much of its configuration automatically from the primary.
rsync is nice.
-j
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