Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:33:23 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
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> What I am thinking of doing is making the two MX records both at the
> same level number, 10, and having that do round robin as well (again,
> just the one mail server, accessible via both connections). Does anyone
> see any issues with this idea? Both public IPs in use will have rDNS
> setup. My theory is that half the email will come in via one connection
> and half via the other one. Outgoing email will just use one of the
> connections.
>
> Any ideas / comments / other things to consider?
Here you have some approaches for round robin and balacing MX records:
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/rr.html
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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