Smarthost Failover - WAS RE: [Mimedefang] SMTP mailertable question

[Dan Tulovsky]

Hi.

Do you have to use ip addresses?  You cannot define two names the same
way you defined two ip addresses?

define(`SMART_HOST', `host1:host2') 

Thanks
Dan

> Rather than defining the smarthost by name in the sendmail.mc 
> file like this...
> define(`SMART_HOST', `mail01.mydomain.com')
> 
> ... and having to either change the entry (and rebuild 
> sendmail.cf) or change the address to which the name 
> resolves, we tried the following, using the litteral IP 
> addresses of our primary and secondary external gateways, like this...
> 
> define(`SMART_HOST', `[192.168.1.1]:[192.168.1.2]')