[TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Jim Ray wrote:

> What if you're in a lab and wanna test some stuff out?  

Lab conditions are fine.  Real world you don't want all your eggs in one 
basket.  Best practices are suggestions to save your butt when RR drops 
your connection again or you have to take your mail server down for an 
upgrade to CentOS.

> If it goes down, do
> you get a letter from da man saying bad boy, or do the Internet police show
> up at your door and whap you upside the head with a frying pan?

No.  Your clients just get bounce messages if your internet connection 
goes down for too long.  Having a backup MX saves you the embarassment.  
You need the backup DNS for the backup MX to work.