[181114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor via NANOG)
Tue Jun 16 19:58:03 2015
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:57:50 -0400
To: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
From: Robert Blayzor via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net>
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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?
F5 GTM? Depending on what your DNS volume is you could probably get away =
with a couple of virtual appliances=E2=80=A6
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