Re: [cobalt-users] Exchange Server with Second BackUp Mail Server

[Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 04:52, Steven Depuydt - BeNe.WS wrote:

> How can I define in the DNS records of our server these settings.
> So, that when the first exchange server is not online the mails are handled
> by the other exchange server. (With another IP and another domain name not
> hosted on our server).

This is very basic DNS stuff. See the DNS-HOWTO[1] and learn DNS.

To directly answer your problem, you want to set to MX records for the
client's domain, with the primary server given a higher priority than
the backup server. A zone file that reflects this functionality would
look something along the lines of:

  IN		MX	10	primary-mail.domain.com
  IN		MX	20	backup-mail.domain.com

   - andrew

[1] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

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