[afnog] Two mail servers in the same domain

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

[Playing devil's advocate, as I said, I do not have a lot of personal
practical experience.]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:29:50PM +0300,
 Mike Barnard <mike.barnardq at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 50 lines which said:

> CARP is FREE, VRRP is not,

You need some definition of free. I could say: "VRRP is an open
standard (RFC 3768), CARP is the result of a protocol number
hijacking."

> its patented 

Yes, but, as I said, *everything* is patended, from hypertext to
the search directive in resolv.conf. 

> and you will have to get licenses to use it

I know people who use vrrpd <http://vrrpd.sourceforge.net/> and
received nothing from Cisco's lawyers. Pure luck, may be?