[181087] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Mon Jun 15 15:22:42 2015
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From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
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>but 'well behaved smtp clients' should already be falling back right?
If you have multiple SMTP servers at the same priority, it's a pretty
broken client that doesn't try them all until one works.
That said, there is a depressing number of pretty broken SMTP clients.
R's,
John
