On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > > So I'm getting ready to start what's known as my "smurf army" in my design > documents: a farm of small, inexpensive, fast machines set up specifically > to deliver mail as quickly as possible. (the first three are ultra-5's, > mostly because another project went away and we got them for free....) > > And I've been looking at the best way to interface all of these with the > delivery boxes. With Mailman, that means SMTPHOST. > > The way SMTPHOST is set up, to implement a smurf army would require setting > up a round robin DNS of the various hosts. That'll work, but... If one of > the boxes goes down for some reason, some percentage of Mailman deliveries > would fail when it hits that part of the round robin, unless I tweak the > round robin constantly, which would require setting up a DNS box among the > smurf to delegate the round robin to instead of the corporate DNS, which is > not a good idea on any number of levels for us... [snip]
fwiw, i only have about 10% of the traffic you do Chuq, but I've been using this method with success on 2 low end pentiums with linux, and a sparc5 with openbsd all running postfix for a bit over a year now.. the round robin method has worked well for me, but making Mailman MX aware sounds like an improvement. just some thoughts :) .djc. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
