Re: AW: basic understanding AA/MX-record load-balancing

2014-01-13 Thread Seann
MX records only apply to the destination FQDN for the email. Spoofing the destined domain to force everything through the relays is not a good idea. Most load balancing of an outbound relay requires you to force or manually configure the relay in your mail programs, to point to the load balan

AW: basic understanding AA/MX-record load-balancing

2014-01-13 Thread Bauer, Stefan (IZLBW Extern)
Hi List, thank you for confirming my opinions about DNS for load balancing. I share your opinions. @Peer - your advice is to use MX records. I don't think, MX-records can be used for relayservers. Our flow is: Client -> Exchange - > Relayserver -> t...@example.com I only see a use case fo

Re: AW: basic understanding AA/MX-record load-balancing

2014-01-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: > Yes, if the sender is Postfix. Postfix will randomly select from > equal-preference IP addresses and IP protocols. This is intentional, > so that mail does not get stuck when one path is broken. See also my second response with pointers to relevant Postfix configuration parameters that c

AW: basic understanding AA/MX-record load-balancing

2014-01-13 Thread Bauer, Stefan (IZLBW Extern)
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] Im Auftrag von Wietse Venema Yes, if the sender is Postfix. Postfix will randomly select from equal-preference IP addresses and IP protocols. This is intentional, so that mail does not