On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> The users will get both IP addresses, but in a random order. If they are
> running Exim, it will quickly learn that one of the IP addresses is
> dead, and will soon not be trying it very often. Exim's retrying data is
> held per IP address, not per host name, for precisely this reason.
Yes, but that's delivery from an MTA, which obeys MX records and has some
idea of a host being down. Try getting Eudora to do things that way and
you're SOL. IMAP and POP also suffer from the same problems.
The Big/IP gives us redundancy with a max 3 second failover. Take a look
at
http://www.f5labs.com; it might clear up what I'm trying to do.
Of course, now that Exim 2.00 is out, the question no longer requires an
answer...
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j.
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