>I had what I believe to be a similar issue like this today for the first >time. The domain that it was sending to had 4 mx records. 2 With a >preference with "3" and one with a preference of "5", and one with a >preference of "100". One of their "3" preference mail servers was down >instead of trying the other server with a preference with "3" it jumped >right to the "5". > >Is that behavior normal if you have two mail servers with the same >preference?
no, it should try all MX of equal preference before trying MX's of lesser preference. document your observation carefully and submit as a bug. Len __________________________________________________________________ www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
