Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:10:15 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Fabrizio Ravazzini <freefabri@yahoo.it> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mail Toaster CLUSTER Message-ID: <3B5FDE77.DC5FC3DB@i-clue.de> References: <20010726065304.39908.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>
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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 <bofh@online.ie> ha scritto: > > Quoting Fabrizio Ravazzini <freefabri@yahoo.it>: > > > > > 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 <mail.foo.bar> 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
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