"Muhammad Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have three qmail servers for my LAN. Two are directly connected to
>Internet for receiving and sending of mails for my LAN. Third one is
>POP3 server. All users first send their mails to POP3 server which
>then forwards outgoing mails to one of the two servers which are
>directly connected to Internet. For load balancing feature, I want
>that if my POP3 server is queued with lot of mails. He then forward
>rest of the mails to second server automatically. So the mails may be
>cleared form both of the servers. I have done this configuration but
>haven't tested yet:
>
>/var/qmail/control/
>smtproutes
>
>:firstqmail.server
>:secondqmail.server
>
>
>will this alteration work for load balancing???/
No, that'll either send everything to both systems, or only one of
them--I'd have to check the code to see which.
What you could do is install DJB's dnscache and use pickdns to balance
the load.
-Dave
