OT - setting up mailertable

[Stijn Jonker]

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Hello Venkata,

Venkata Achanta said the following on 06-Jan-05 0:46:
> Greeting all,
>
> we have multiple exchange servers at our site and i am trying to build some
> redundacy/fault tolerance into the system, i mean if one exchange goes down

>
> /etc/mail/mailertable
>
> xyz.com esmtp:[1.1.1.1]
> xyz.com esmtp:[2.2.2.2]
> xyz.com esmtp:[3.3.3.3]
> xyz.com esmtp:[4.4.4.4]
> xyz.com esmtp:[5.5.5.5]
>

Just a wild guess, and the top of my head, the [1.1.1.1] means don't
lookup the MX for the record. What if you create and dns alias:

smtp-final.<domain> pointing to 1.1.1.1, 2.2.2.2, 3.3.3.3 etc
then put in mailertable xyz.com esmtp:[smtp-final.<domain>]

Maybe that works?

Styijn

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Met Vriendelijke groet/Yours Sincerely
Stijn Jonker <SJCJonker at sjc.nl>

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