I'd highly recommend reading either or both of these ..
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565925114/techbooks01a
(for people doing DNS on NT, geared toward MSDNS but is insightful about
the stack as a whole)
and
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565925122/techbooks01a/002-1110649-4
547419
I think Dusty mentioned this one earlier, this is the normal DNS & Bind,
both books by O'Reily and Associates. Excellent reading material.
Jonathan
At 02:44 AM 8/20/99 +0800, you wrote:
>Oh i got it now. So, it's more on the DNS settings. So should both of our
>offices have it's own DNS server? Will Imail will refer to the hosts file
>of WindowsNT even though I am using NT-Bind?
>
>Thank you very much Dusty.
>
>Raymond
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: ## Dusty Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 2:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS
>
>
> > >Suppose that we have 2 offices with 2 seperate Imail servers, Server1 and
> > >the other Server2. Can we set them up to relay addresses for each other
>so
> > >that whenever one server goes down, the other will temporarily hold the
> > >emails?
> >
> > You could have two different offices handle mail for
> > each other.
> >
> > Office One:
> > server1domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.server1domain.com
> > server1domain.com. IN MX 20 mail.server2domain.com
> >
> > Office Two:
> > server2domain.com IN MX 10 mail.server2domain.com
> > server2domain.com IN MX 20 mail.server1domain.com
> >
> > In the above example if mail.server1domain.com is down,
> > mail.server2domain.com will store its mail until it comes up
> > or the retries timeout.
> >
> > >And also, if i put this on my DNS,
> >
> > >remotedomain.com IN MX 20 your.domain.com
> > >remotedomain.com IN MX 10 mail.remotedomain.com
> >
> > >Will all the remotedomain's email pass through my mail server first
>before
> > >it will be delivered to their server?
> >
> > Think about it like this. The lower the number the higher the priority.
> > So in your example above, if mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > then the sending MTA will attempt to send it to mail.remotedomain.com
> > first. If it is not available then it will attempt to send to
> > you.domain.com.
> >
> > Dusty
> >
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