Anycast provider for SMTP?

Mon Jun 15 19:45:03 UTC 2015

I could be mistaken, but you might get all of this done with AWS's Route53.
I would read this:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-policy.html#routing-policy-geo

The other step would be to setup HA in each SMTP node (US and France) such
as LB or Failover. Just an idea.

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
>