Layer 7 Load Balancer
Luc MAIGNAN
luc.maignan at winxpert.com
Mon Nov 19 19:53:54 UTC 2007
Yes, you're true for the ip level. It's why I'm looking for a layer 7
(application level) solution. For instance, I'm using postfix not sendmail.
Have you a postfix based solution ?
Les Mikesell a écrit :
> Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
>
>>>> My problem : I have two mails servers and I want to distribute
>>>> incoming mails to a server depending of the domain (e.g.
>>>> somebody at domain1.com to server1 and somebody at domain2.com to server2)
>>>>
>
>>> Uh, why? Is there some reason DNS won't do what you need? With 2
>>> separate domains, just point your MX record to the correct server.
>>>
>>> Or am I missing something obvious here?
>>>
>
> > No, because the MX of the two domains points to the same IP (services
> > are dispatched behind this IP)
>
> Nothing at the IP level can distinguish inbound connections for the
> different destinations and they are all going to be connecting to port
> 25. However, you can configure sendmail at that IP address (or
> wherever you direct port 25) to accept for both domains and relay to
> the other one at an address specified in mailertable. The problem
> you'll have with this is that the first machine won't know the users
> on the other domain and will relay everything. If you get a lot of
> spam to non-existent users, then the real server will reject them and
> the relay will have to construct and try to deliver a bounce, clogging
> up your queues. To avoid that you might use virtusertable to list all
> the valid recipients at the other domain and a default rejection if
> they don't change too much, or something like MimeDefang which can
> check the real host for the recipient via smpt before accepting at all.
>
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