Cory Coager:
> Noel Jones said the following on 01/22/2009 03:20 PM:
> >> Is there another way of adding multiple addresses for transport of a
> >> domain? Round robin DNS would work I guess but not as good as a
> >> failover. If one of the addresses in the DNS is down the transport
> >> is going to get delayed for that MX and the mailq is going to build up.
> >
> > Why would an address in DNS being down be any different from an
> > address specified in a config file being down?
> >
> > Anyway, if you don't want to put special entries in DNS you can add
> > entries to your hosts file to simulate multiple A records.
> >
> I guess you are right, failover would try the primary and wait for a
> timeout before attempting the failover address.
>
> I was just looking into the hosts file but it doesn't seem like postfix
> refers to it as I'm getting bounce messages:
> Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
> name=smtptest.localhost type=A: Host not found
You need to enable hosts file lookup:
smtp_host_lookup = dns, hosts
Wietse
