Re: New Hardware

2004-12-06 Thread Nix
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Jeff Chan muttered drunkenly: On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 8:17:14 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: how do i check whether SA is using the locally stored file or whether is still querying the surbl.org DNS? Is there an easy way if your not a bind / DNS guru? A dig may tell

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Rick Beebe
Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup was hitting load max they found some cash for me... :D We

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Ronan
Rick Beebe wrote: Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup was hitting load max they found some

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
Ronan wrote: snip Ok well I hounded or DNS guys to finally put multi.surbls.org into the dns(as a master), watched him HUP named and then should i notice a difference?? im still getting 10+ seconds scantime on some messages.. how do i tell if its working? message size issues??? if you can

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Ronan
Martin Hepworth wrote: Ronan wrote: snip Ok well I hounded or DNS guys to finally put multi.surbls.org into the dns(as a master), watched him HUP named and then should i notice a difference?? im still getting 10+ seconds scantime on some messages.. how do i tell if its working? well granted

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 8:17:14 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: how do i check whether SA is using the locally stored file or whether is still querying the surbl.org DNS? Is there an easy way if your not a bind / DNS guru? A dig may tell what name server it thinks it's using. Jeff C. -- Jeff

New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Ronan
Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup was hitting load max they found some cash for me... :D We are in a

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Martin Hepworth
Ronan I'd go for dual opteron V20z if you want to stick with sun kit. Will outperform the Sparc based stuff. no need to heart-beat, just have the two machines on same MX value and DNS will load balance for you. Would be interesting to see how Solaris 10 compares with Linux in this environment -

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Ronan
Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread jay
You might also look at Solaris X86. I've just brought up such a box, and am impressed with the performance relative to Linux on the same box. jay Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given

RE: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Gary W. Smith
of the nodes for maintenance without any customer impact at all. Gary -Original Message- From: Ronan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:29 AM To: spam Subject: New Hardware Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Per Jessen
Ronan wrote: Which one will be better suited to SA? I know SA is more cpu/ram than disk IO so im leaning more toward the AMD approach. The reason there are 2 machines of each is because im gonna implement fail over using heartbeat. Depending on your setup, you can probably do without

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Dennis Davis
Subject: RE: New Hardware Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:42:02 -0800 From: Gary W. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ronan [EMAIL PROTECTED], spam users@spamassassin.apache.org We use 4 single processor machines 2.8ghz P4 HT and we are doing 150k per day now without breaking a sweat. We also have two