Wietse Venema wrote: > 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
Wouldn't it be: smtp_host_lookup = dns, native http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_host_lookup -Matt
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