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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IGPs and services?
On Tue, 16 May 2000 23:22:09 PDT, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" said: > > What is the general feeling about running routing protocols on > > web/dns/mail servers? > > Technically, not a problem. However, there is a school of thought that > thinks that to be a bad policy. That routing functions should be on > appliance-level systems, like routers. There is also some merit in that > appliances are more reliable, mainly because nothing *else* can cause an > operational interrupt. Unix systems are *real* good about process > control. but, there are still some things that makes it advisable to > reboot a system, at times. If that system is ALSO a critical router then > the entire net is down until the reboot is complete. It is generally not How about the case of a system with several network interfaces on different subnets, and using a routing protocol to better pick which interface to send a connection out on? This is probably more applicable to mail servers - web and dns servers don't have as much latitude as they sort of have to answer on the interface they were contacted on... Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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