[80670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google DNS problems?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun May 8 12:24:25 2005
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 19:22:27 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: aljuhani <info@riyadmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a05050809144d57aa30@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>On 5/8/05, aljuhani <info@riyadmail.com> wrote:
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>>Well I am not a DNS expert but why Google have the primary gmail MX record
>>without load balancing and all secondaries are sharing the same priority
>>level.
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>Has it occured to you that there are other ways of load balancing
>mailserver clusters than just setting MX records?
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And actually it's quite common to have only one MX record today if the
secondaries have no clue of the valid recipients.
(to avoid queueing bounces)
Pete
