[26695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bender)
Thu Jan 13 17:34:25 2000
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:29:27 -0500
From: Andrew Bender <abender@tns-inc.com>
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> If you have routing loops in your network, chances are you have bigger
> issues to worry about..
Discontiguous networks create a supportability problem, and increase
the risk of these very issues. One is not well advised (IMHO) to
create such a network without a darn good reason...and this (to me)
does not seem to be a Darn Good Reason.
> Oh, and the mentioned "stardust" problem will happen whether you
> choose to deploy distributed mail/dns/cache servers, or whether you have
> a big farm. You'll still need some form of load-balancing in front of
> your cluster.
That's exactly the point. It is easier to solve this problem (not to
mention scale or plan) for a farm or cluster than for servers in each
of 270 pops. And easier yet when I use names, rather than the silly
"well knowns".
Opinions aside, the infrastructure required to support stateful load
balancing for these boxes in each of their routing islands is
substantially more than most are committing these days...
Regards,
Mr. Stardust
tns-inc.com
