Re: [exim] ratelimit-ACL across multiple hosts

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Author: Mark de Vries
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] ratelimit-ACL across multiple hosts
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, exim-users-ml@??? wrote:

> we have several servers which handle incoming smtp-connections as a
> loadbalancing-setup, which also make use of the ratelimit-database.
>
> one main disadvantage is, that you had to multiply the rate by the
> number of hosts in the setup.
>
> is it possible to share the ratelimit-hints-database across several
> hosts - e.g. by NFS? are there some pitfalls, especially when the
> nodes are on high load/traffic?


I have wondered about this myself. Althoug I would be more interrested in
sharing the callout cache between several servers....

If anyone tried and would like to share there findings that would be
great.

Cheers,
Mark.