Anycast provider for SMTP?

Wed Jun 17 04:02:40 UTC 2015

Any luck on a DNS based solution?

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Joe Hamelin <joe at nethead.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Have any of you seen something like this work in the wild?
>
>
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> Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
>