[80671] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google DNS problems?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Sun May 8 14:14:09 2005
In-Reply-To: <000b01c553e8$0886d7a0$ef84a2d4@riyadhub>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 19:13:23 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8 May 2005, at 17:07, aljuhani wrote:
> 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.
Huh ?
[...]
> 1888 (97%) messages were gated through Gmail's Primary mail server
> (gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com).
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com is at least two machines, but much more
likely to be at least two clusters of machines ... :
;; ANSWER SECTION:
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN A 64.233.185.27
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN A 64.233.185.114
.. load-balanced in some way. One MX record doesn't mean one machine
and no load-balancing by any means.
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