xiaoy@bullet.ecf (XIAO Yan) (05/24/91)
Don't know whether this is the most proper place to make this request. If I give two machines the same name (with different IP address), will I get more reliability in terms of mail function? Right now whenever our major e-mail machine (call it A) is down, I make another machine (call it B) act like A by setting B's host_id to A's and we don't seem to lose any mail. Is sendmail smart enough, or is it usually configured in a way, that if no response from A, then check some other machine(s) (say B) with the same name as A? Xiao <xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu>
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May24.133115.12665@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu> xiaoy@bullet.ecf (XIAO Yan) writes: >Don't know whether this is the most proper place to make this request. > >If I give two machines the same name (with different IP address), will I >get more reliability in terms of mail function? No. You will finish up with a disaster. Learn about using nameservers and MX records. They are the solution to your problem. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940