On 18/12/2020 08:22, Thomas Walter via mailop wrote:
Personally I'd use two A records for one name, but whatever.
That's round robin, not "backup"? Systems will "randomly" connect to
both connections and fail if one line is down - which was not the
intention here.
No. It should try both. The or
On 18.12.20 02:58, John Levine via mailop wrote:
> In article <469F9E736EE5DB4A8C04A6F7527268FA01CA03E20B@MACNT35.macro.local>
> you write:
>> Hi
>>
>> Where we have multiple internet connections, we setup MX records for both
>> connections. If one connection is down,
>> email flows through th
In article <20201218020831.ga5...@cmadams.net> you write:
>single MX record pointing to a hostname with multiple IPs. I don't
>remember if a single queue run tried multiple IPs for the same host or
>not.
>
>That's old knowledge, and I don't know how modern mailers handle things
>(haven't had need
Once upon a time, John Levine said:
> That sounds like two equal priority MX records. No problem with that.
>
> Personally I'd use two A records for one name, but whatever.
IIRC from back in the day, when I ran sendmail for an ISP, the host
status tracking was done by hostname, not by IP. Havi
In article <469F9E736EE5DB4A8C04A6F7527268FA01CA03E20B@MACNT35.macro.local> you
write:
>Hi
>
>Where we have multiple internet connections, we setup MX records for both
>connections. If one connection is down,
>email flows through the other one.
That sounds like two equal priority MX records. N
Hi
Where we have multiple internet connections, we setup MX records for both
connections. If one connection is down, email flows through the other one.
hc
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