Re: [EXIM] Avoiding a bad backup MX server

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
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Aan: Leonardo Boselli
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [EXIM] Avoiding a bad backup MX server
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Leonardo Boselli wrote:

> Misunderstanding: lets do an example:
> PL had 3 MX recods for a domain: he said that the third one is very
> slow, so he prefer to keep trying to post to the first two.


No misunderstanding. Just configure the MTA to post to the first two,
using a domainlist router.

> Telling the MTA to use only the first 2 with MX 10 and 20 and
> forgetting the one with 99 , or to avoid MX with level > 50 do not
> have problem if the order is changed, since it would get
> automatically the two new preferred ones ...


But what if one of the two is removed? What if they add two more with
preference 10? Or 15? Or 40? You have to keep watching what is going on
whatever you do. Therefore there is nothing to be gained by implementing
a horrible kludge for something you can already do by other means.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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