Eric Hidle on 6 Dec 2004 17:52:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] routing question....


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
>
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