Distributed setup with realtime failover/balancing

[Jonas A. Larsen]

> > Hmm well it might be overkill, but definitely not for the above reason.
> Your
> > describing the normal basic smtp loadbalancing/failover that mx records
> > provides, which is fine. The problem is in a mailscanner/mailwatch setup
> > there are more components than simply the smtp incbound traffic. After a
> > remote server have send a mail to either of the mx records, the mail is
> > stored temporary on one of the boxes, if that box goes down, that mail
> and
> > any mail quarantined on the box is unavailable to users. Which is not
> > acceptable.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Jonas Larsen
> >
> >
> I take it you are going to be running two Ultra Monkey servers as well
> then?
> --
Yes, that was the plan.