Google DNS problems?!?

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Sun May 8 16:22:27 UTC 2005


Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>On 5/8/05, aljuhani <info at riyadmail.com> wrote:
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>>Well I am not a DNS expert but why Google have the primary gmail MX record
>>without load balancing and all secondaries are sharing the same priority
>>level.
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>Has it occured to you that there are other ways of load balancing
>mailserver clusters than just setting MX records?
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And actually it's quite common to have only one MX record today if the 
secondaries have no clue of the valid recipients.
(to avoid queueing bounces)

Pete




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