Re: [Exim] Suggestion for WishList items 85 and 109

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Marc Langer
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Suggestion for WishList items 85 and 109
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Marc Langer wrote:

> WishList items 85 and 109 seem to be similar. The possible solutions
> given so far:
>
> - remove a server from the list within a single Exim process when a
> connection to it fails
>
> - implement a retry database for database lookups
>
> Other solutions could be:
>
> - introduce an option "randomize_database_servers", sort of round robin
> as used in DNS


Noted.

> - remember response times of database servers and use the fastest
> (should also be a special configure option)


Harder, and would require inter-process coordination, which always runs
the risk of slowing things down. The design of Exim tries to minimize
inter- process coordination.

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