Re: [FW1] Question - Load Balancing mail

[Reinhard Stich <rs@FW1-NOSPAMKPNQwest.at>]

hi,

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Marius Banica wrote:

> Hi there and mary X-mas
> 
> I got A question,
> Can I define logical servers for smtp service so I would be able to "load balance" mails..
> I got Internal exchange and two mail-realies in the DMZ, Is it posiblle to balance this service so the exchange will be able to send mails thoght both servers?

I think the easiest way to do email-loadbalancing is to use
DNS-round-robin.

make a static NAT for both mail-relays from the internet to the DMZ and
permit SMTP-traffic.

then define 2 MX-records in the DNS with the same priority.

cheers
-reinhard



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