On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:20:53PM -0500, Matthew Harrell wrote:
>
> : If you can get them to give you an IP address you're set. Use the IP
> : address in smtproutes instead of the name.
>
> Actually, I should have mentioned something about this. The MX address
> actually points to four addresses and knowing how frequently AOL machines
> go down I'm hesitant to force all my mail through one of them. It would
> be fine if I could do
>
> aol.com:mx1.aol.com,mx2.aol.com
>
> and I haven't tried it but I haven't see anything written about it.
Why don't you set up a name like aolmail.bittwiddlers.com pointing
round-robin-wise at all four of the IP addresses, and stick that name in
smtproutes?
Chris
