[CentOS] Sendmail problem - baffled

Tue May 15 21:43:09 UTC 2012
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 15.05.2012 23:37, schrieb Frank Cox:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 00:31:22 +0300
> Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> 
>> BTW, the two servers are virtual machines in one and the same physical box.
> 
> What's the point of that?  (Genuine question.)
> 
> One server here, one across town,  or even two separate boxes in a single room
> -- sure.  But in the same box?  If the the box is on fire, now you're out both
> your main and your backup server.
> 
> I must be missing something; what is it?

I feld exactly the same when I saw both mail servers where in the same
subnet. No point in doing that.

Jussi should run 2 identical setups in 2 hosts as MX with same priority
if redundancy is desired. Of course, having them as VMs on the same
hosts limits the redundancy quite a bit as the host is the single point
of failure here.

Alexander