[isp-dns] Re: Concerns about high Load

[Len Conrad <LConrad@...]

> What were you saying about wasting money =]
ah, but my money buys more security, more baskets for different eggs, more 
scaleability.  Your money buys one basket.

> A quick synopsis again:
>
> Mailbox server has: pop3, imap, http, storage.
> MX Gateway has: restricted DNS, smtp, av, port forwarding to above services.
>
> The MX/firewall is only a firewall for the one mailstore server nothing
> else, no workstations etc... The DNS config has restriced accessibility for
> recursion and zone transfers, even to boxes on our network. Effectively it
> is a secondary only for delegation as you said and caching for itself and
> one server. I see how the above scenario would be good but I think that its
> a bit of an overkill in our situation.
5000 users is a pretty good number of mail users.  And I was assuming my 
double-wall firewall was the single access chokepoint, but apparently you 
have a mail path and other path(s).

> I will employ a few things you have said. I havn't just ignored everything
> =] Thanks for your help.
email is cheap, ignore it, nobody cares. :)

Len