Re: MTA (SMTP/POP) + LVS

[Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:42:17PM +0100, Harald Nesland wrote:
> 
> Just remember, the LVS-director would be single point of failure (unless 
> you've got more of them). A round-robin solution in the nameserver 
> records could be safer. Though it's alot easier to control the LVS 
> cluster. (Regarding DNS zone refresh, timeouts..)

It is pretty standard paractice to use two Linux Directors in
an active/stand-by configration to remove the single point
of failure.

LVS should give you much better control over your load balancing
than and DNS solution. It also is able to react much more quickly to
real server failures - no DNS timeouts. 

-- 
Horms