Windows 2003 SMTP Service DNS setting
Hi I currently have two Windows 2003 servers running the smtp service use for outgoing mail. Most of the email sending applications that I am using can only point to one server. Is there some entry I could add in DNS to allow some sort of DNS round robbin to ensure that if one smtp server is down the other one will be used? Thanks
September 14th, 2009 10:47pm
Hello Berket,
We may configure round robin on DNS servers to share and distribute network resource loads.
Please check:
Configuring round robin
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787484(WS.10).aspx
Meanwhile, to ensure the high availability of SMTP servers, you may consider configure SMTP resource on Cluster environment.
For more information, please refer to:
How to Configure the SMTP Resource on a Windows 2000-Based Server Cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280400
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September 15th, 2009 11:35am