On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:00:39 -0700 James Lott <ja...@lottspot.com> wrote:
> I think RR DNS is the only viable solution under these circumstances. > If you can cope with the fact that failovers won't be seamless, I > don't think there's anything wrong with that though. > > On 07/21/2015 11:54 AM, Laz C. Peterson wrote: > > The consensus seems to say no to RR DNS … I am going to take that > > into serious consideration. > > > > With this proxy setup you describe, what would happen if HAProxy or > > Dovecot Proxy were to fail? > > > > I think there is no problem with many moving parts, as long as > > there is a backup plan in case something goes awry. My goal is > > slightly different, as I want to have HA available across > > datacenters without using BGP or having control over the IP space > > (so, no anycast). Just a simple way to get the clients redirected > > to the other Dovecot server when I lose an entire datacenter > > network for whatever reason. you dont need DNS RR for that. just plain DNS entries with a very short TTL. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org