Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:46:16 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: "freebsd" <freebsd@gorlani.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Balancing outgoing SMTP relay Message-ID: <20070117074616.c74cd0fa.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c73a27$9d769b80$6601880a@Enigma> References: <000501c73a27$9d769b80$6601880a@Enigma>
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In response to "freebsd" <freebsd@gorlani.net>: > 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 for wheighted one). > Someone pointed out to use a name for the smart host, and have DNS to > resolve that name to the IP of all the relays (multiple A records) but this > turned out in doing failover, not load balancing. > Anyone has a *working* idea for solving this apparently simple problem? > Thanks pf has the ability to do round-robin dispatching, which will sort of work like load-balancing: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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