On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Chris Knipe wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Another way which I actually thought about that might also be good to take
> load of mail servers...
>
>
> IN MX 10 mail.somedomain.com
>
> mail A x.x.x.x
> A x.x.x.x
> A x.x.x.x
>
> etc etc etc ? This is allowed in DNS, that I am sure about, but will it be
> accepted as far as MX records go?
Yes, that works - we do that - however it's not optimal as taking a server
out of action is messy. If all your boxes are in the same place I'd be
tempted to go for a load balancing switch... (And will probably convert
our boxes to such a setup soon..)
I guess if you want site resiliance you could put two A recored in for
your mail server pointing to two distance load balancing switches...
Regards,
aid
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