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Anycast provider for SMTP?
- Subject: Anycast provider for SMTP?
- From: guillaume at ironie.org (Guillaume Tournat)
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:40:13 +0200
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Give a look at hosted GSLB service, FortiDirector, which I have set up for a customer (for SMTP, Exchange, ActiveSync world wide services.
> Le 15 juin 2015 ? 19:50, Joe Hamelin <joe at nethead.com> a ?crit :
>
> I have a mail system where there are two MX hosts, one in the US and one in
> Europe. Both have a DNS MX record metric of 10 so a bastardized
> round-robin takes place. This does not work so well when one site goes
> down. My solution will be to place a load balancer in a hosting site
> (virtual, of course) and have it provide HA. But what about HA for the
> LB? At first glance anycasting would seem to be a great idea but there is
> a problem of broken sessions when routes change.
>
> Have any of you seen something like this work in the wild?
>
>
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> Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474