Re: split the load?

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Author: Piete Brooks
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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 ...