Lotus Domino Clustering

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I had configure 2 Domino Server, ServerA and Server 1A for Domino Clustering at Malaysia with domain abc.com.my. Both Domino server need connect to the Lotus Domino Server at US with Domain abc.com. There is the SMTP Gateway at both side. Internal email will route withing the Domino Domain.

  1. All incoming/outgoing external email to abc.com.my domain need route to the ServerA , then go through SMTP gateway by default.

  2. Incase of any line down at ServerA down, all the incoming/outgoing mail will route to Server1A

What document i need to configure and how to do it? Please advice. Thanks.

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Subject: Lotus Domino Clustering

There are several things to take into consideration here…

Internal Mail and mail failover in the cluster.

External (incoming) Mail redirection - ISP

External (outgoing) Mail

Connection documents

DNS redirection

Internal mail - depends on Links etc whether you create one Notes named network or many then set up mail routing via connection documents - Also check out mail fail over in the admin help.

External Mail - you will need to get your ISP to forward to your main SMTP server with a 2nd route to your other if there is an issue.

External (outgoing) Mail - in the servers configuration document set the relay host for leaving local internet etc normal stuf but instead of a Domino server put in a DNS name containing both IP addresses for both servers. This will mean that if it fails for one it will send to the next. This is OS based and not Domino thing…This is easier than old Foriegn domain documents.

I hope this has given you stuff to think about.

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Subject: RE: Lotus Domino Clustering

Hi, Nathan

Thanks for the advice. From your post, i only dont have an idea on the External (Outcoming) mail. Can you explain to me more detail regarding this? Thanks

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Subject: RE: Lotus Domino Clustering

oops I meant to say OUT GOING ie mail you are sending.

sorry for the mistype.

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Subject: RE: Lotus Domino Clustering

I know you are talking about outgoing mail. Actually i am more concern about the outgoing mail. 2 domino server cluster have a SMTP gateway. All the outgoing mail go through the Mail Server 1 by default. In case the mail server 1 or line down at mail server 1, all the email will route to Mail Server 2. Can you please tell me which document i should configure for the outgoing email to SMTP gateway? I mean both the Domino Server.Thanks.