[tech] Re: Disk Usage on /home

[Bob the Builder]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 05:18:10PM +0800, Michael Deegan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 05:00:25PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:23:53AM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > > We should probably also look at doing some sendmail/MX frobbing so that
> > > morwong is primary MX, mooneye secondary and gulag tertiary, so that
> > [...]
> > 
> > I don't think that's a good idea on its own; the delay, the
> > not-insignificant traffic cost and the fundamental brokeness of a
> > failed connection with every email from outside PARNet turn me right
> > off it.
> > 
> > If we disabled SMTP and ICMP filtering for morwong, though, or if
> > there's a straightforward way to make mooneye the primary MX but still
> > deliver to morwong, that sounds like the go.
> 
> What about port forwarding mooneye:25 to morwong:25? You could probably do
> similar for other services too.

Port forwarding doesn't have the nice mooneye queue on /mail full
behaviour. Anyway, there much better and more maintainable solutions.

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Grahame Bowland <grahame at azale.net>