On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com> wrote:
I have a mail system where there are two MX hosts, one in the US and one in Europe. Both have a DNS MX record metric of 10 so a bastardized round-robin takes place. This does not work so well when one site goes down. My solution will be to place a load balancer in a hosting site (virtual, of course) and have it provide HA. But what about HA for the LB? At first glance anycasting would seem to be a great idea but there is a problem of broken sessions when routes change.
Have any of you seen something like this work in the wild?
F5 GTM? Depending on what your DNS volume is you could probably get away with a couple of virtual appliances… -- Robert inoc.net!rblayzor Jabber: rblayzor.AT.inoc.net PGP Key: 78BEDCE1 @ pgp.mit.edu