Re: [exim] ratelimit-ACL across multiple hosts

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Mark de Vries
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] ratelimit-ACL across multiple hosts


Mark de Vries wrote:
> 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.
>


I'd love to have it too - but I had assumed that it wasn't possible. In
my case in particular because I have hosts in multiple locations and if
the central host fails the other hosts would need to switch to
independent rate limiting. But I'd love it if it magicall worked.