Keeping a machine up (was Re: which prebuilt...)

[Kerry Hoath]

You need to see if your service provider can provice backup mx service. Of
course this isn't free you need to pay. There is also etrn service
available on http://www.ddns.org/ but it is $25us a year or something rather cheap
if you ask me
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:56:34PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> If one were to go down during storms, or whatever how does one deal with
> lost email if that's a service you run on the machine? I've not yet found a
> backup mail service that keeps retrying your system until it comes back. I
> know the free dns providers let you set mx, but set it to which machine,
> never found a list of them online to choose from to send my mail through.
> At 07:46 AM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >I take my machine down for three reasons typically. The first is that
> >lightning storms roll through and the machine doesn't care for those
> >surges. The next is that ocasionally the power just drops. The third is
> >cause I just want to mess with it and/or, I don't know what I am doing
> >while I mess with it.
> >
> >Notice, I freely admit that sometimes I reboot out of sheer ignorance. I
> >know that something can be accomplished without the reboot,but reboot
> >because I am not sure how to accomplish my goal otherwise. but this last
> >thing is dropping lower and lower on the list. (Oh I did of course reboot
> >when I changed distributions recently and am sure there was no way arround
> >that.)
> >
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> >Kirk Wood
> >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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