[TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill

[Jim Ray]

Ah, mx.  I could see how a /29 would help with mx1.*, mx2.*,...

I still wanna try dns1.*, dns2.* and hosting another domain name.  One day.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Magnus Hedemark
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:10 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill


On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Carl Lindner wrote:

> Actually, if you guys don't mind me jumping into this thread.  I'm
> curious that if you do have multiple MX records for email defined.... 
> how exactly do you go about synchronizing them without the user having 
> to pop/imap to multiple machines to retrieve their email from secondary 
> backup servers?

MX isn't necessarily the final destination.  A backup MX usually holds 
onto mail for the primary MX until the primary MX comes back online.

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