Cluster of MailScanners

[Martin Hepworth]

John

normal way of doing this is to have mutliple MX records for the domain
with the same value. That way dns will round robin between the computers
and if one fails others will pick up the work load automatically.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


John Schmerold wrote:
> Has anyone tried following approach to configuring a cluster of
> MailScanner boxes?
> 1. Get an account at dyndns.org - They are good guys & don't ask for a
> bunch of money
> 2. Define your mx record to be mx1.dnsalias.net
> 3. Setup as many MailScanner boxes as your daily volume dictates (Let's
> say you're setting up 2 units)
> 4. On the hour, run ddclient on box #1, on the 1/2 hour run ddclient on
> box #2
>           (see http://www.dyndns.org/support/clients/dyndns.html for
> info regarding ddclient)
> It seems to me that this should help the huge spam attacks people are
> seeing. Will this work, is there a better way?
>
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