Re: Postfix problem

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Paolo Ercolani wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i'm trying to use pen for load balancing postfix, but i have a
> strange result. The client comes in with the local address, so
> i lose all the postfix security and postfix becomes an open
> relay. Anybody can help me?? Can i setup pen making it passing
> the right ip address to postfix???

Nope. ;-) And using a load balancer for mail is really, really
unnecessary.

Why do I know this? Because we used to load balance incoming mail
using pen, until we realized that it is already built into smtp
and dns.

ulric_at_ulric-nx9420:~$ dig @maud qbranch.se mx

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @maud qbranch.se mx
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3017
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;qbranch.se. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
qbranch.se. 86400 IN MX 5 mail.365-24.se.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
qbranch.se. 86400 IN NS maud.qbranch.se.
qbranch.se. 86400 IN NS grace.qbranch.se.
qbranch.se. 86400 IN NS
kristina.qbranch.se.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.365-24.se. 86400 IN A 217.151.192.80
mail.365-24.se. 86400 IN A 217.151.192.81
mail.365-24.se. 86400 IN A 217.151.192.79
maud.qbranch.se. 86400 IN A 217.151.192.121
grace.qbranch.se. 86400 IN A 217.151.192.20
kristina.qbranch.se. 86400 IN A 65.61.155.140

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.6.2#53(10.0.6.2)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 13 17:10:44 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 214

Ulric
Received on Wed Sep 13 2006 - 17:18:58 CEST