This is done in your DNS tables. You should have a second MX record with a lower priority than your primary SMTP server. If a connection to your primary SMTP server fails, DNS will direct the connection to the secondary. You must, of course, allow access through the firewall to the secondary SMTP server. David Hoobler -----Original Message----- From: Ivan More [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 4:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FW1] Redundancy mail servers in FW-1 Hi, Currently, we have an exchange server running with the following rules: Source Destination service Any Mail-server smtp with resource Mail-server Any smtp Under the smtp with resource, the mail server in the general tab of the smtp definition is set to 192.168.10.60 (internal ip). All is working well. QUESTION: Now, we intend to have redundancy in our mail service. That is to say we want firewall-1 to Auto re-route emails to a secondary ip (say 192.168.10.80) if the primary server (192.168.10.60) is down. We are running FW-1 version 4.0 on NT4 machine. Is this possible? Also in the $FWDIR/conf/smtp.conf file, can I have different server's ip in the default_server field? If yes, what is the syntax? Any comments will be apprepicated. Cheers, Ivan _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
