[afnog] Two mail servers in the same domain

[Mike Barnard]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>wrote:

> [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."
>

We could get into the politics of CARP and VRRP and HSRP, but i really
prefer to use something that works amazingly well, with not strings attached
to it :-)... hijacking or not... the politics that went in IANA, i really do
not know... I mean, M$ got to pass their ooxml non-sense as a standard
despite numerous rejections.



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

there are no strings attached to their use, none that i know off anyway :-)


>
> > 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?
>
>
lucky them, Alcatel got their pants sued off them for attempting to use VRRP
by the apparent owners, CISCO. By the way, CISCO was working on something
called HSRP, which seemed not to be working, and somewhere along the way,
they took over VRRP as theirs, actually, hijacked it. but again, that is
politics i'd rather steer clear of.


-- 
Mike

Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in
a million chances happen 99% of the time.
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