At 6/29/01 12:55 AM -0700, you wrote:
> ;; ANSWER SECTION: > nieto.net. 1D IN MX 30 mail.nieto.net. > nieto.net. 1D IN MX 40 pop.nieto.net. >> These appear to me to both be low priority mx entries. Shouldn't they be 10> and 20 generally speaking? > > Cheers, > Brad
Shimi's right; the actual numbers do not matter at all. You could use 100 and 687 for all it cares.
The only thing that matters is that the lowest number is used first. MX entries with equal priority numbers get requests divided evenly among them (3 entries, 1/3 of traffic each). I use 10,20,30 just to make my life easy, but no one and nothing cares which numbers you select. Just be consistent.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx