[19524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 974 - Mail Routing and the Domain System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow)
Wed Sep 16 13:14:11 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:08:04 -0700
From: "Michael L. Barrow" <mlbarrow@eni.net>
To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
CC: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>, nanog@merit.edu
Studded wrote:
> BIND will round robin the MX records, how mail agents deal with
> multiple MX records of the same priority is less of a known factor (to
> me at least). Actually I'd be interested to hear from people who try
> both configurations for say a month at a time to see what influence each
> configuration has if any.
I was just looking at this code in sendmail the other day. sendmail will
randomize when it gets multiple MX records of the same priority. Look at
mxrand() in domain.c.
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Michael L. Barrow * <mlbarrow@eni.net> * Network Engineer
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