<div dir="ltr"><div>Understood. I just try to make life easier on the admins, of which I am part time one. :)<br><br></div>Load is a valid reason, but I'll deal with that if it ever shows up. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:00 PM, dev null zero two <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dev.null.02@gmail.com" target="_blank">dev.null.02@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I partly kid, but separating services into different OSes reduces complexity and is necessary for high load. don't want your dhcp server to quit handing out leases because your mail daemon is getting hammered. </p><span class="im HOEnZb">
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 23, 2015 12:59 PM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So what happens when you need to do maintenance on the mail relay? Maintenance that necessitates taking the whole system offline (for whatever reason). You are then taking offline at least one of your internal DNS and NTP servers.<div><br></div><div>I prefer one service per system for that reason. However, we are a primarily VM based shop.</div><div><br></div><div>I do have some physical servers that are running multiple services, though. And those two boxes are running: DNS, DHCP, and NTP. All very related services.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM, leam hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I've seen large companies take the "Winderz Way" and put every single service on a separate host. This adds cost and resource consumption and I'm not sure there's a good reason for it. <br><br></div>Am I off base here? Is there any reason not to have internal only DNS, NTP, and Mail Relaying on the same hosts?<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Leam<br clear="all"><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div></div>
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