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Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Hamelin)
Mon Jun 15 13:52:36 2015
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From: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:50:15 -0700
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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
