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Re: mail farm?

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Michael_E_Brown@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mail farm?
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:32:06 -0400
Michael_E_Brown@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> Why would you want to use LVS for this? You can do load balancing against
> multiple mail servers without LVS. Use multiple MX records to load balance,

do MTAs use MX records in random order, rather than the first one
in the list? (I assume DNS delivers the MX record to the MTA). 
Wouldn't local caching of DNS records make the use of a particular
MX record persistent?


Joe

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Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA


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