[ On Thu, November 21, 1996 at 18:06:00 (+0000), Piete Brooks wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: split the load?
>
> > (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 ...
Perhaps this could be resolved by checking to see what the RFCs say
about DNS round robin replies. My guess is that's only a "SHOULD" too,
though if it's a "MUST"..... Sorry I've not the time to even skim
through the obvious docs just now, but I did want to point this out and
also note that I'm more inclined to agree with Philip, since if you
really want "random" contact to your MX hosts then you can easily
install a modern DNS implementation that *does* do round robin serving,
and in that case why burden exim with wasted code and effort that's more
likely to undo round-robin efforts than anything else.
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Greg A. Woods
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