Hello:
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of freebsd
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:34 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Load balancing outgoing mail relay
>
> Hi
> I have a simple question but googling does not
On 1/17/07, Charles Trevor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What happens if you do multiple dig/nslookups for smarthost.domain.tld.
Are the records returned in a different order each time? If not the
problem may be at the NS.
Nope. Postfix shuffles equal-weight MX records internally, so it
doesn't
freebsd wrote:
This (multiple A records) works for me, at least approximately. Both
Bind and MS DNS will round robin when multiple A records exist for the
same hostname. What is your setup?
FreeBSD 6.2 with Sendmail (initially) and now postfix.
MS DNS with round robin (and TTL set to 0 on the r
FreeBSD 6.2 with Sendmail (initially) and now postfix.
MS DNS with round robin (and TTL set to 0 on the records).
Resolving with nslookup gives something like:
smarthost.domain.tld
192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3
If I kill 192.168.0.1 then it goes on the second one. But this is failover,
a
This (multiple A records) works for me, at least approximately. Both
Bind and MS DNS will round robin when multiple A records exist for the
same hostname. What is your setup?
FreeBSD 6.2 with Sendmail (initially) and now postfix.
MS DNS with round robin (and TTL set to 0 on the records).
Resolvi
freebsd wrote:
Hi
I have a simple question but googling does not lead to a valid/usable
answer.
I need to load balance OUTGOING emails. I have serveral smart hosts. I
need my internal SMTP server to send mail using ALL of the smart hosts
together, making some kind of load balancing (no need fo
