RE: Cluster Sendmail?

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:45 +0300, Jussi Silvennoinen wrote:
> > > Has anyone used Red Hat Cluster Suite with Sendmail?  Barring 
> > > that, does anyone have a good reference document for doing 
> > > so?  I've only played with RHCS once in a lab, so I'm 
> > > starting pretty much blank.
> > 
> > IMHO, you don't need HA  Cluster for building HA sendmail solution -
> > using several MX records with the same priority is enough.
> 
> Only for certain problems. Outgoing mail gateway for MUA's don't benefit 
> from multiple MX's. HA/Loadbalancer solution is necessary.

Multiple A records might work

mail.outgoing IN A 172.31.31.1
              IN A 172.31.31.2
              IN A 172.31.31.3
              IN A 172.31.31.4



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