On Thu, 2 May 2002, Mike Richardson wrote:
> The former gives redundancy, the latter load balancing. What I'd
> prefer though is to be able to specify a list of hosts and have them
> looked up in random order because I don't want to flood the first host
> on the list.
From the Exim 4 Wish List:
. Implement randomize for ldap/sql servers.
That's under "things that didn't make it into Exim 4".
> Now one thought was to specify the rr dns name several times but I
> fear that exim will either cache the IP or notice that there are
> multiple identical hosts listed and complain.
No, it won't do that.
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