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

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Scott Morizot writes:

> On 24 Jun 2005 at 12:48, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
>> I agree completely. It isn't bind randomness strategy per si that
>> creates the distortion. Nor is Courier's MX choosing strategy either.
>> It's the *interaction* of bind randomness strategy and Courier MX
>> choosing strategy that produces the distortion.
>
> Which reinforces my point, I think. If the administrator of the mail
> servers behind the MX records wants to ensure that all of their same
> priority MX'ed mail systems are attempted, they should put together their
> MX lists appropriately. Personally, I wouldn't mix a lot of same *and*
> different priority MX records in the MX list. I would either use all the

That's not how DNS works. A MX query returns all MX records, of all
priorities, for a domain.



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