Cluster of MailScanners

[Pentland G.]

I would agree with Martin except to say that it doesn't guarantee an
"even" spread of load.

I have 3 MX hosts available to the world and one gets around 50% -> 60%
of the load, with the other two each getting just over 20%, fortunately
my hosts can handle it :-)

It all depends how complicated you want to make your life.

Gary

Martin Hepworth wrote:
> 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.   
> 
> 
> 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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