Title: [Way OT] DNS MX load balancing questions...

Hi All

Was just trying to understand something and am getting conflicting results..

If I set the following (or 2 mx of the same priority with 2 differnet a records)

Mydomain.com            MX      10      mail.mydomain.com
Mail.mydomain.com       A               10.1.1.1
Mail.mydomain.com       A               10.2.2.2

I understand that will provide dns roundrobin but what happened if I shutdown 10.2.2.2, will I lose (logically) 50% of my mail as I do not have another fallback MX??

My understanding is that it does so as the sender mail server will cache the MX record and A record and will only send to there, am I right or am I getting this wrong?

If I'm shutting down 10.2.2.2, will the sender mail server retries to 10.1.1.1? (lets assume there's no ttl reconfig to zero)

Thanks lots


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Freddy Hartono
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