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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
On 11 Jan 2000, Michael Shields wrote: > > Specifically, if you have a set of well known IP addresses for common > > services, thus something like: > > > > 223.255.255.1 - Primary DNS > > 223.255.255.2 - Secondary DNS > > 223.255.255.3 - SMTP Mail > > 223.255.255.4 - Time Server > > Why did you choose to have exactly 2 DNS servers and exactly 1 SMTP > and "time" server? This seems a big drawback to the standard IP number method. Think about a network sharing an IGP containing thousands of dialup ports. That's where I am. How many dialup ports can you have before one SMTP gateway just doesn't cut it? Sure you can play games with load balancing, layer 4 switches, or perhaps route filtering but why force money or effort to be wasted on such things? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[email protected]*| Spammers will be winnuked or System Administrator | nestea'd...whatever it takes Atlantic Net | to get the job done. _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________
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