Re: secondary router question...light dawns on (my) thick skull?

[Technical Support, Stalker Labs]

Hello,

On Tue, May 15, 2001, 02:07:13 GMT
  Les Cavanagh, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>on 15/5/2001 11:25 AM, Joe Wagner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I've been experimenting with my second mail server to try an track down
>> what I do wrong in order for these pesky loops to occur.  The DNS entries
>> in question for this test domain were:
>>
>> domain1.com.  MX 10 mail.domain1.com.
>> domain1.com.  MX 20 mail2.domain1.com.
>> domain1.com.  MX 20 mail3.domain1.com.
>>
>> My router entry on the secondaries re:
>> domain1.com = domain1.com.smtp

With the .smtp suffix the right part should be A or CNAME record name - MX lookups are 
not done for names endinf with .smtp

>> When the primary goes down, the secondaries seemed to bounce email between
>> each other before failing.  It's only now just occurred to me wonder if
>> perhaps this looping could be cause by the two secondaries have the same
>> priority number? If so, isn't SIMS (or the behavior specified by the RFC)
>> smart enough not to forward on to a server of the same (secondary) status?
>> Or could that not be the cause of a mail loop?
>>
>> Joe
>Change it anyhow since it is not right...
>

Best regards,
Dmitry Akindinov

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