[81689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Localized mail servers, global scope
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jun 23 10:57:48 2005
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:27:10 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com" <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF0246045D.B85EF570-ON80257029.0030028D-80257029.00301C79@radianz.com>
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Wild idea and there's just too much good german beer here at MAAWG
(www.maawg.org) in Dusseldorf, but .. anybody tried anycasting a
mailserver?
Operationally that is ...
On 23/06/05, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com> wr=
ote:
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> > You don't need a central MX if each site MTA knows which users are at
> > which sites. Incoming email may have to take an extra hop if it comes i=
n
> > to the wrong site, but that's a consequence of the specification that n=
o
> > implementation can fix.
>=20
> In other words, SMTP does not have the equivalent of an
> HTTP redirect which is what he wants here. Maybe SMTP
> really is broken? ;-)
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> --Michael Dillon
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
