On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Why do you think you need a backup MX host that's not within your own
> administrative domain?
There is one possible advantage, which is that all your pending mail
ends up queued on a single host during an outage. This means that, when
you do come back up again, you don't have a zillion hosts all trying to
make TCP/IP connections at once. (This has been known to bring down
machines not configured to cope gracefully with such a load.)
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
