Re: [Exim] Suggestion for WishList items 85 and 109

On 30 Mar 2003 at 20:16, Marc Langer wrote:


> Other solutions could be:
>
> - introduce an option "randomize_database_servers", sort of round robin
> as used in DNS

Why not support and use SRV records, this should resolve all issues
with the database servers, so resolve order would be for a host SRV, A,
hostfile, failure..

The benefit of these, is that they have fields for load balancing, and
failure capabilities.

> - remember response times of database servers and use the fastest
> (should also be a special configure option)
>
> When using database lookups for delivering mails it is important to
> provide load sharing and failover methods, in my point of view.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
>


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Jason Robertson
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