Re: [courier-users] MX randomizing: trying to understand

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Rodrigo Severo writes:

> Let's see this example:
>
> 10 brsmtp02.br.abnamro.com
> 10 brsmtp04.br.abnamro.com
> 15 naxpf001.abnamro.com
> 15 naxpf002.abnamro.com
> 15 naxpf003.abnamro.com
> 15 naxpf011.abnamro.com
> 15 naxpf012.abnamro.com
> 15 naxpf013.abnamro.com
> 30 plum03ap.abnamro.com
> 30 walnut001ap.abnamro.com
>
> In this case brsmtp02.br.abnamro.com has 9 out of 10 chances of being
> contacted and brsmtp04.br.abnamro.com have the remaining 1 out of 10

No.

The MX records are always sorted according to their priority.

brsmtp02 will be contacted 50% of the time, with brsmtp04 taking the other
50%.

Which one will be tried for a given connection attempts depends on the
response from the DNS server.


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