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Re: question about using MX's for load balancing

To: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: question about using MX's for load balancing
Cc: tc lewis <tcl@xxxxxxxxx>, lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:08:38 -0500 (EST)
Also another things I thought of, if all the machines have the same
priority MX, then will mail actually fail over to a secondary MX in that
case?  How at that point if they all have the same priority determine
which host to defer mail to?

-jeremy

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:53:18PM -0500, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > This I don't know, but as I understand it, remote mail targeted for the
> > primary is held on the secondary only until the primary becomes available
> > again and the secondary host is only queues the mail.  
> 
> That depends on how the secondary is configures. The secondary could queue
> the mail and then forward it, it could deliver it by some means, it could
> throw it away :) Of course this depends on the mail software you are using,
> but that is just an implementation issue.
> 
> -- 
> Horms
> 
> 


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