[181080] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guillaume Tournat)
Mon Jun 15 14:40:28 2015
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From: Guillaume Tournat <guillaume@ironie.org>
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=
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> Le 15 juin 2015 =C3=A0 19:50, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com> a =C3=A9crit :=
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> I have a mail system where there are two MX hosts, one in the US and one i=
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> 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.
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> Have any of you seen something like this work in the wild?
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> --
> Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
