Muliple Servers

Nezar · 06-12-2001, 10:52 AM

Assume that I have two mail servers in my domain:

MAIL1.NYDOMAIN and MAIL2.MYDOMAIN .

How can I enable MYDOMAIN email users to fetch thier incoming messages from any of the given servers MAIL1 OR/AND MAIL2. That is , the incoming messages forwarded to both servers?

jharris · 06-12-2001, 12:15 PM

The only way that I can think of doing it would be to have them share a single filesystem. So have a third box that NFS exports a directory that both servers use to store users mail. Clearly this is putting all your eggs back in the same basket, which is probably what you are trying to avoid by having two mail servers - hence you might want to then have some kind of mirroring setup on a secondary NFS server that you can switch to should the first fall over.

HTH

Jamie...

Nezar · 06-12-2001, 11:38 PM

But I think there is a way to do that by modifying the zone file (MX records to be precise-preferences numbers)!
That what I want to know!

Thanks,

jeremy · 06-13-2001, 09:05 AM

If you do round robin DNS mail will not go to both servers, but will alternate between the two.