Re: General Routing question

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:11:04 +0100 (BST)


Irfan Akber wrote:

> I have a general routing question. We have a dedicated link from UUNET and
> IP addresses from them. We have Linux servers etc. Now sometimes due to the
> local loop problem our link is down for 2-4 hours. During this time all
> network/Internet activity stops. Now if I arrange for another link, say a
> dedicated dialup line so in case of emergency I switch to that. If I do
> that I will be given one IP address from my ISP, so I have the problem of
> receving email and providing our dns service.
>
> Can anyone suggest methods/routing technique so that our setup keeps
> running and in case of emergency we switch to dialup line and yet no harm
> comes to our services. Should I also include the dialup IP as secondary DNS
> for my domain ?. Any alternative that you people have already implemented.

You should specify the dialup IP as one of the DNS servers, and also
as a backup MX.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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