Re: OT: what to do with two T1s?

[Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com>]

At 3:01 AM -0700 7/4/01, Derek Sivers wrote:
>  >> well, are they from the same provider ?
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>Sorry I didn't mention that up front.
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>No they're from two totally different providers.  With different IP 
>blocks and everything.

Run. Run away screaming now.

Sorry, I'm dealing with almost exactly this situation now. Trying to 
route one IP block via both providers in order to provide painless 
failover. Both providers say we can do it, & it does seem to be 
working now, but lately "failover" has meant that it failed, over & 
over & over.

Anyway, my point: this should be doable, but don't take it on lightly 
& do realize that problems are very likely to occur.

-Kit

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>>  > If you had two T1s, and were running an qmail server, DNS, hosting a
>>>  variety of websites, what would you do?
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>>>  #1 - put different services on the two different T1s.   (websites on
>>>  one.  dns & mail & office web use on the other?)
>>>  or....
>>>  #2 - Somehow MERGE two T1s into "redundancy" using djbdns, ipnat, or
>>>  something like that?