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Re: MX secondary, dns and sendmail - what's wrong?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Fri Nov 20 19:32:19 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 19:32:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Ramon Gandia wrote:
>
>
> Drew Mouton wrote:
> >
> > First, our dns is like this (this is a pre-BIND8 config file):
> >
> > mydomain.com IN MX 10 serverA.mydomain.com;
> > mydomain.com IN MX 20 serverB.mydomain.com;
>
> 1. What is the semicolon doing at the end of your lines above?
> It should be a period.
>
> 2. serverB.mydomain.com will NEVER get email unless serverA is
> not responding. There is no way, that I know of, that at this
> level you can assign some users to serverA and some to serverB.
I was waiting for somebody to say that <grin>! It's what I thought
to... additionally one way that users could use serverB is by using
the IP address of the machine instead of the name but I think that's
about the only way.
Cheers!
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