OT: Load Balancing & redundancy using Multiple A records

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Steve,

This is a good start http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=linux+smtp+load+balancer+application+intelligent&btnG=Search&meta=

but what it comes down to is do you require load balancing or resilience ?  sorry but I deleted my old emails so how many servers are we talking about and how many diverse locations ?

Regards,

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Campbell" <campbell at cnpapers.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:28:44 PM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: Re: OT: Load Balancing & redundancy using Multiple A records



Steve Freegard wrote:
>
> It works, but don't expect it to load balance well.  For that you 
> really do need a proper load-balancer that can examine metrics of each 
> of the back-end systems and direct connections to them accordingly.
And could you please expand on what might be a good load-balancer? 
There's a lot of ideas about what is a good solution for load-balancing, 
failover, and all the other mechanisms needed. (This is OT, isn't it?). 
I have used UltraMonkey quite a while back, before it was really 
ARP-repaired. I am now thinking of returning to it, but it's difficult 
to find other solutions.

Any pointers here would really help, Steve

Steve
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve.
>
> -- 
> Steve Freegard
> Fort Systems Ltd.
> Tel: +1 202 595 7760 x801

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