On 22-4-2010 20:28, Michiel van Es wrote: > Yes > That is the default smtp failover setup but I want to balance the load > via a load balancer setup > Mx records can not balance load
If you have 2 mx records with the same priority, your load should be balanced.. Or you could have a single mx record pointing to a hostname which has 2 A records.. DNS round robin will take care of the balancing. That is why there are almost no smtp balancers, because it is not needed. In the 1980's they already designed smtp for balancing and failover. For other protocols this was not so easy, that's why people wrote http balancers :) -- With kind regards, Angelo Höngens systems administrator MCSE on Windows 2003 MCSE on Windows 2000 MS Small Business Specialist ------------------------------------------ NetMatch tourism internet software solutions Ringbaan Oost 2b 5013 CA Tilburg +31 (0)13 5811088 +31 (0)13 5821239 a.hong...@netmatch.nl www.netmatch.nl ------------------------------------------
