Anycast provider for SMTP?
Robert Blayzor
rblayzor.bulk at inoc.net
Tue Jun 16 23:57:50 UTC 2015
On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:50 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?
F5 GTM? Depending on what your DNS volume is you could probably get away with a couple of virtual appliances…
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