Author: Piete Brooks Date: To: Philip Hazel CC: exim-users Subject: Re: split the load?
> Exim chooses the first, but modern nameservers do round robinning so > should return them in different orders.
Don't pas the buck -- *SOME* NSs round robin -- not all.
> It would therefore be a bad idea if Exim started messing around as well.
Why ?
I thought randomizing random data did no harm ....
.... but it does a lot of good if the data is not random !
> I don't believe that is in fact a good idea now that the DNS does
> round-robinning.
Why ?
> (And in any case it is only a SHOULD, not a MUST.)
Sure -- but I thought exim tried to be a *HELPFUL* MTA, not ducking out of
thing because the RFCs only say they *SHOULD* be done ...