smtp load balancer???

[Joshua Hirsh]

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> I am considering adding an SMTP load balancer in front of my 
> MS servers.
> 
> Any suggestions?


Hi Denis,

 Have you tried setting up multiple A records for one MX, instead of two equal value records? 


For example:

usherbrooke.ca.	IN	MX	5 smtpe1.usherbrooke.ca.
smtpe1		IN	A	132.210.244.90
smtpe1		IN	A	132.210.244.91


 It might be cheaper instead of buying a device to actually balance it out, but I don't have any data on how well this balances out the requests as compared to how you have it setup now (two equal value MX records).


 Regards,

-Joshua

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