Ian Eiloart escribió: > > > --On 9 November 2007 12:50:43 +0100 Adrian Chapela > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Provision of IP failover is highly dependent on the platform that > you're using. It's not required for MX availability, because remote > servers will try all your advertised servers. It is required for MSA > availability, because MUAs will not. Yes you are right, but if you have clients locally on your company, they must connect to a smtp server and DNS round robin it isn't the best solution to get hight availability (IMHO). > > We use MacOSX servers. OSX has a reasonably easy to configure IP > failover mechanism, as long as you only have two servers. When we went > beyond two servers, we deployed spread and wackamole which make > failover configurations for any number of servers trivial. For > example, we have 12 imap server IP addresses, to ensure good load > balancing with either 4, 3 or 2 available hosts. Wackamole simply > needs to know what the addresses are, and endeavours to share them out > equally among available servers. Yes.. it sounds perfect... > > <http://www.spread.org/> > <http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/> Best regards. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
