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On Sat, 3 May 2008, Jason Ledford wrote:
> I am doing a smtp cluster and after I got the lvs part figured out, smtp
> works just fine. In your telnet session, how do you get as far as the mail
> from and rcpt to if you aren't getting a response? If you telnet to the
> server does it respond with a banner?
I think there's the beginnings of the exchange in the HOWTO
> I've given LVS-DR a spin and that worked fine, but the issue with that
> is that outgoing SMTP messages (e.g. sendmail queue) would be sent from
> the various real server public source IPs.
what public IPs? For security, the only public IP on the
realserver should be the VIP
> When I've done this, I am getting traffic all the way: client >
> (internet) > gateway 80.1.1.1 > VIP on director > RIP on real server >
> back to director (ipvs?) > gateway 80.1.1.1 > (internet) > client.
so the LVS is working
> But telnet session initiated from the client looks like:
>
> HELO localhost
> MAIL FROM: infernix@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> RCPT TO: root@localhost
>
> No text is returned from the server. At all.
I don't really know what's going on. Since LVS is working,
there must be something at the application layer. Is
localhost a valid address in this context?
Joe
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