Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:56:26 +0000 From: Charles Trevor <ct.lists@qgsltd.co.uk> To: freebsd <freebsd@gorlani.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay Message-ID: <45AE2B0A.3090509@qgsltd.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <000801c73a23$017bdeb0$6601880a@Enigma> References: <000801c73a23$017bdeb0$6601880a@Enigma>
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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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 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? Charlie
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