[28948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pop server in an ISP environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Fri May 26 07:34:06 2000
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:31:50 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Muljawan Hendrianto <muljawan.hendrianto@siemens.com.sg>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20000526173743.J5100@mail-sg.siemens.com.sg>; from muljawan.hendrianto@siemens.com.sg on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:37:43PM +0800
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On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:37:43PM +0800, Muljawan Hendrianto wrote:
> I am thinking about using QPOPPER+procmail, but some people say that it is not scalable because its authentication is based on /etc/passwd. And in Unix environment there is certain recommendation not to have more than 5000 users in /etc/passwd file.
>
> Another issue is high availability, does any body use server clustering in an ISP environment?
>
> ps: the system should be able to accomodate about 20000 users.
i used to maintain one of the freenets.
we had 60000+ accounts in the password file, which was shared with 8 machines
using NIS on the older SunOS 4 (pre-solaris).
we never had a problem with scaling.
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