-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan J. Flavell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In discussing doing something against the abuse, we have at times >toyed with the idea of the secondary verifying that the primary is >basically "up" and, if it is, responding to the caller with a "defer", >rather than proceeding with the transaction. The intention being >that the caller should retry the primary host later. We never really >tried it out in production, though. Unless the secondary is very close by (in network terms) this would be unwise ... You would penalise remote sites whose connectivity to your primary was significantly worse than their ability to swap traffic with your secondary. With asymmetric routing of traffic and overloaded links, this is far from uncommon. - -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBRCbJzpoAxkTY1oPiEQIxiwCg6u/KMTJEfid2mgnc692JtB9mBNoAoMsn 2iEx9Ks3ogbdoaK9fnGnj3QL =cYCw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
