[181072] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Orthoefer)
Mon Jun 15 14:00:11 2015
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From: John Orthoefer <jco@direwolf.com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:55:48 -0400
To: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
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Well we, Genuity, use to use Cisco Distributed Director to do this. =
Basically it was a DNS server that ran on a Cisco Router, and could use =
a lot of different metrics to give an answer, which included routing =
based metrics. =20
Johno
> On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com> wrote:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Have any of you seen something like this work in the wild?
>=20
>=20
> --
> Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474