On 09/21/2010 12:52 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:10:49AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote:

On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote:
In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop
destination of a message like this:

customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain]

...and the customer uses round robin dns for mail.customer.domain so that
it points to multiple IPs like this:

mail.customer.domain. 900 IN     A       111.111.111.111
mail.customer.domain. 900 IN     A       222.222.222.222
mail.customer.domain. 900 IN     A       333.333.333.333

....will postfix rotate between the ips that it delivers to?
Yes.
Yes, when traffic to the destination is light (message deliveries
are spaced multiple seconds or more apart) or is very heavy (message
deliveries are many in each interval equal to the delivery of a single
message). When traffic is moderate, demand connection caching may
introduce some short-term bias towards recently used IPs. As the load
rises multiple connections are cached in parallel, and these will tend
to use all the available IPs.


Yes, sorry - I did read that before, but neglected to be complete in my answer :(

Am I correct in thinking that this adaptive behaviour is designed to prevent overloading the nameservers postfix talks to ? Hence why it wouldn't kick in at low volumes, and wouldn't matter at high volumes.

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J.


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