Re: Question MX ..cjk

2001-07-06 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Constantine Koulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want my emails to go to my both emails Servers.. for backup reasons MX1 and MX2. Create mx records for both of them. If one of them should be preferred give it a lower preference than the other. Regards, Frank

RE: Question MX ..cjk

2001-07-06 Thread Mike Culbertson
I want my emails to go to my both emails Servers.. for backup reasons MX1 and MX2. You cannot accomplish this with your MX records. If you add two or more machines as MX records, with the same priority, they will be treated like round-robin DNS entries and mail will flow to both

Re: Question MX ..cjk

2001-07-06 Thread Will Yardley
you should make sure that one server is configured to be a backup. there's no way to make email go to BOTH machines; if you set them to equal weights, they will (in theory) each get about half the mail. you shouldn't do this unless you know what you are doing. you could also setup one as a