Re: [cobalt-users] Secondary Mail server problem on a RAQ4

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some how the original question got lost......

the question was why is it that when email is send from the second server 
that has the lower priority on MX record it goes to the same server and not 
the one that has more priority in this case ... (mail.nieto.net)

TIA
Carlos

At 10:46 AM 6/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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