From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 26 2: 7:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B0037B403 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA11759; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:15:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3B5FDE77.DC5FC3DB@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:10:15 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabrizio Ravazzini Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mail Toaster CLUSTER References: <20010726065304.39908.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: > > Thanks a lot Sascha for the help, but how can I assign > connections 'round robin' in the DNS, is there some > documentation that can help me doing such thing? Read the bible: DNS & bind, Liu and Albitz, if memory servers right. Basically, adding several A records for one name will automatically do DNS round robin. > The DNS must be in my internal LAN? It must be the primary DNS for your load-balanced setup. > --- Sascha Lucky Luck ha scritto: > > Quoting Fabrizio Ravazzini : > > > > > Is it possible with FreeBSD to make a "cluster" of > > > two machines (ix86) that when one goes down for > > > some fault the other takes care of the service so > > > that Mail is still available? > > > > Fabrizio, > > > > set up 2 mail servers and CNAME to > > both servers in DNS. > > [snip] MX records have to be A records, CNAMES are invalid. As DNS & bind tells, just have two mail servers accept SMTP for your domain. Assign different names and A records, as well as set both as MX for your domain. If one goes down, the other will get the mail automatically. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message