Well I have found my problem. Thanks to Horms for posting some=20
suggestions. ldirectord does not seem to be loading. Not sure why=20
yet. It is complaining about its config. I am sure I will have figured it=
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out before some one replies but here it is anyway.
Louis
# Global Directives
checktimeout=3D3
checkinterval=3D10
#fallback=3D127.0.0.1:80
autoreload=3Dyes
logfile=3D/var/log/ha.log
#quiescent=3Dyes
#Fallback setting overides global
virtual=3D192.233.225.250:25
real=3D192.233.225.254:25 gate
real=3D192.233.225.253:25 gate
fallback=3D127.0.0.1:25
service=3Dsmtp
scheduler=3Drr
persistent=3D600
protocol=3Dtcp
At 07:40 AM 11/20/2002, Louis Bohm wrote:
>Ok. Sorry I did not respond to anyone yesterday. I was very=20
>sick. Anyway. To answer all your questions:
> 1. I cannot do as listed bellow. Why because I am replacing a=20
> single smtp server and most of the machines using it are production=20
> machines who do NOT use DNS. Why are they not using DNS because of=20
> speed. Though I will be doing the bellow for all machines using DNS.
> 2. Why am I load balancing smtp? Because I cannot except having=
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> a machine sitting doing nothing. At least if it is doing something I=20
> know all is working and I can double my performance.
> 3. Fail-over is working between both machines very well. And no=
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> I am ONLY using 2 machines. Both machines are running heartbeat +=20
> ldirectord + smtp. What I see is the machine who is the master at the=20
> time is receiving ALL the smtp traffic. When fail-over happens then the=
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> other machine receives all traffic. Even if I wait the persistence time=
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> out I still do not hit the other machine.
>
>What other information can I provide to you all to help me diagnose=20
>this? As it stands right now failover is working fantastically. I just=20
>want to get round robining working before I put it in production.
>
>Thanks,
>Louis
>
>At 06:15 AM 11/19/2002, Rob Dawson wrote:
>>Er, perhaps I'm missing something here, but why loadbalance smtp? put both
>>servers into the DNS as MX with equal priority, and set your DNS server to
>>RR.
>>
>>Sure, it's not perfect loadbalancing, but it'll do it, unless your servers
>>are closer to being overloaded than you really want...
>>
>>Is there some reason you can't have that sort of service? It's that=
critical
>>to have mail going?
>>
>>
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>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Louis Bohm [mailto:lbohm@lightbridge.com]
>> > Sent: 18 November 2002 19:51
>> > To: linux-ha@muc.de
>> > Subject: Round robining using Heartbeat and Ldirectord
>> >
>> >
>> > I have two machines running Redhat 8.0 and the newest
>> > Heartbeat+ldirectord. Everything is working great except I
>> > can not round
>> > robin between the two boxes.
>> >
>> > Maybe I am missing something but what I would like is two
>> > machines offering
>> > smtp service on one ip and round robining between them for load
>> > balancing. Since I am not really putting a load on them at
>> > all while I am
>> > testing maybe it is working but I am not seeing it. The
>> > scheduler is set
>> > to rr which to my mind when I telnet to port 25 first time I will get
>> > machine A the next time machine B.
>> >
>> > What have I got wrong???
>> >
>> > Louis
>> >
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