Eric Hidle on 6 Dec 2004 17:52:02 -0000 |
Hahah true.. Things used to be a lot more reliable... then again, my servers and network infrastructure can stay up for 4 days without main power (and that's just the stuff at my house)... thanks to cheap UPS's, cheap batteries, and miniITX boxes that consume almost no power.. E ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Crompton" <doug@crompton.com> To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] routing question.... > I agree, especially since I have been my primary DNS for about 10 years > using a 24/7 dialup PPP connection!!! I have 13 domains so I don't want > to bother DCAnet with it. Besides I guess I like the control! > > I am not sure what my average uptime was over the ten years but there were > times when I was down for hours at a time. This is no big deal. The > outside secondaries take up the slack and MX servers buffer the mail. > Sometimes I think we forget where we came from and how it use to be. > > Doug > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Michael C. Toren wrote: > > > DSL service from a decent provider *should* be reliable enough to run > > servers on -- if not, something has gone wrong. A number of people on > > this list use a box located behind a DSL connection as their primary MX > > and NS server, which works rather nicely so long as there are off-site > > secondaries. > > > > -mct > > **************************** > * Doug Crompton * > * Richboro, PA 18954 * > * 215-431-6307 * > * * > * doug@crompton.com * > * wa3dsp@wa3dsp.ampr.org * > * http://www.crompton.com * > **************************** > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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