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Re: NPB power outage
- To: "Carl Malamud [IMS]" <carl@radio.com>, bburdick@radio.com (Brad Burdick [UUcom])
- Subject: Re: NPB power outage
- From: k13@nikhef.nl (Rob Blokzijl)
- Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 14:07:03 +0200
- Address: Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Cc: shinoda@jaist.ac.jp, not-park@park.org
- In-Reply-To: your message of May 24, 8:46
- Organisation: Nikhef-H (National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics)
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I fully agree: it is more important that we are sure to get all the fairmaster mail. Some mails being queued for a couple of hours, is not that dramatic.
Rob
+--- Start of included message from: "Carl Malamud [IMS]" ----- | | > | > > | > > Can we review aliases in /etc/aliases to see | > > which entry japan.park.org should be aware of? | > | > this is something we need to decide upon... do we want alternate cp servers | > to handle mail for park.org directly or just let it queue up on backup mx | > hosts until town is back up. we can always change this behaviour if it looks | > like town will be unavailable for more than an hour. | > | | Let's be *really* careful here. In particular, I want to make sure | that fairmaster@park.org goes to Rob automatically .... I'd hate to | see that stuff queueing up on accounts on multiple boxes because | aliases aren't right or .forwards aren't working or .... | | I think the best strategy is to have a primary (e.g., town.hall.org | if there isn't a good reason to switch) and backup mx hosts. I'm less | comfortable having multiple hosts accept mail. I think the goal here | is to be able to handle 24 hour outages of one of the machines without | a heartache on fair operation. Fairmaster mail can sit for 24 hours | without a tragedy. | | Carl | | | > > | > > 2. Guestbook stuff. Because /Tools is not present | > > on japan.park.org, I'm starting to see document | > > unavailable errors in our error log file. We'd | > > better fix this as soon as possible. | > | > you should have a (mostly) complete /Tools area at this time. | > | > > | > > Brad, can you set up a news system at town? | > | > pulled down the src, just haven't had a chance to build it yet. | > | > -brad | > -- | > Brad Burdick bburdick@radio.com | > Internet Multicasting Service, NPB, Suite 1155, Washington, DC 20045 | > Under contract from UUcom, Inc. | > | | +--- End of included message from: "Carl Malamud [IMS]" -----
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