Re: When will qmail back off to the next MX?

[Ruben van der Leij]

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:09:08PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Because it's reasonable to expect that other MX records will work for
> 1+2, but not for 3.  If the lowest priority MX record is screwed up,
> why aren't the others as well?

If one MX has a screwed up binary, it is likely that other MX's have a
corrupted binary too? I fail to see the reasoning behind that. By the way,
the *lowest* prefence is used first. If the host is down, the higher MX's
are tried. 

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Ruben

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