[nicki]

It’s set correctly in main.cf
I think it’s looking somewhere else for that configuration.

myhostname= www1

is the entry. That is in DNS. I suppose I could try changing it to an IP address. But really the error from the mail.log is looking for an old server that we used to use for smtp. It’s still running but I don’t know where to change the setting.

this is the part I’m worreid about b/c I don’t know where that ip address is coming from
Aug 19 11:41:24 www1 postfix/smtp[16109]: connect to assumption.edu[192.80.61.7]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Aug 19 11:41:24 www1 postfix/smtp[16109]: 8DD121DB021: to=, relay=none, delay=92484, status=deferred (connect to assumption.edu[192.80.61.7]: Operation timed out)

Erase that- sorry, I’m a networking idiot, that’s the resolution of the email address. I just realized our DNS has that ip assigned to assumption.edu so that makes sense. I think this is an exchange problem.

[nicki]

also- i get some errors from mailing from php and some from the command line- those might be combined in that log file. i think there is another error generated after a while that is a result of it trying to email the error back to someone that it doesn’t recognize – says
Name service error for name=ww1.ww1 type=MX: Host not found, try again

The name of the machine is www1
The IP address in the log that I pointed out before is from an old mailserver the server used to use, and I didn’t think it still did but it must be imbedded somewhere.

I also checkd out resolve.conf and that has the correct settings.

It’s really only important that I be able to send mail through php so if this is the wrong path to setting that up, I don’t need to get command line mail working.

[nicki]

So, it turns out everything is working fine and I don’t actually think you need the Test script. I just called Apple for support and the way you test it is if both of the network interfaces are down. That’s not really what we were looking for and now I understand why no one is using this. It’s not that useful. The machine has to fail in a major way for the other one to take over. It’s a nice piece of a greater procedure though- you can always write a program to force it to let go of it’s network interfaces under certain circumstances.

[nicki]

Another thing: I don’t use for the main server’s hostconfig file the address ending in .255 for the secondary server b/c I couldn’t get the priomary server to come up on the web that way.

The docs tell you to disconnect the primary server after setting it up and reconnect it after you set up the secondary server- this causes it to send me an alert when i plug back in that the ip address is already in use? so, by taking it off the network, the secondary server has already picked up it’s ip address. Wouldn’t that make it primary already before the process even starts?
I tried the script Test and it didn’t help. I copied /usr/bin/false into the new dir and gave it 755.
Nicki
ALso- can you tell me how you set up DNS? maybe that is my problem.

[nicki]

Gary- Are you on 10.4.2? Oh, and have you got it working yet?

I found information in the doc Command Line Administration as well as high Availability. It talks about the scripts to use right after configuring the hostconfig file. Some information is different- for example, the email notification is supposed to be sent from secondary rather than primary server, which makes tons of sense considering it will be down. but there might be something else in there.

[nicki]

Hmm, I don’t even have that directory in /Library but I also didn’t see that in the docs. I think everything is working as far as failoverd works b/c it’s writing to the log when it can’t see the other server. I just can’t seem to force it to go over FW rather than ethernet to find the other server. I’m in a test network, too, with no firewall. I’ve heard that those docs are incorrect though. Would love some replacement docs

[nicki]

Indeed, I am trying to destroy the hard drive I’m booted from. I meant to be the FW. Embarassing. THanks

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