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On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:26:15PM -0500, David D.W. Downey wrote:
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> Got a question. How would you set up mail in an LVS cluster? I'm
> considering putting a mixed base of mail servers into this cluster. They
> will be sendmail and Exchange Server servers. Does LVS lend itself to
> this?
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> One of the concerns I have is about mail loss. Example...
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> dover.com sends email to mydomain.com which is using the LVS'd mail
> servers. 1) would mail loss result from being sent to various mail hosts
> by load balancing? (I don't think they'd actually be lost, just split
> accross the various servers based on the algo used)
That would depend on how your mail servers are set up, but basically
the answer is no.
> 2) How would you
> instruct your users to get their mail? (Especially if the incoming
> messages ARE split accross the servers.) 3) Are there any other issues I
> should be looking at? If I am correct, I would only list the VIP for the
> virtual mail server in the MX record. Correct?
For a discussion of how this can be done please see
http://vergenet.net/linux/mail_farm/
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Horms
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