If I set this up in DNS, what would happen if an outgoing server in the
cluster went down? Also how effective would the load balancing be?
Thanks again,
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: Server Water Sprinkler
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Mike wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if someone could tell me how to send mail to one
> > outgoing RehHat server, and make that server round robbin to 10 other
> > smtp servers? I mail about 250,000 emails a night, and the subscriber
> > base is expected to grow 50 fold over the next 6 months and I am
> > trying to gear up for it. I just want to send 1 email to one server
> > somehow have it grab the list off of a SQL database on the same
> > server, and distribute it to the other 10 as load-balanced as possible
> > for delivery. Any suggestions. I have like 70 different ideas on the
> > whole project, but cannot think of a way to accomplish this paticular
> > task.
>
> Add an entry on the RedHat server to smtproutes, that points to an
> internal DNS record.
>
> Then, initialize your DNS server and put 10 A records for this hostname.
> Each individual message will then be sent to a randomly chosen IP address,
> one out of 10, balancing the load.
>
