[sclug] sendmail dns question.

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:01, Simon Heywood wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:38:42PM +0000, Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> > triv.org.uk     mail exchanger = 90 mail.makyo.org.
> > triv.org.uk     mail exchanger = 10 mail.triv.org.uk.
> > triv.org.uk     mail exchanger = 80 jabog.tmdg.co.uk.
> 
> Okay, I think I may have worked this one out. You see, I changed the MX
> records not too long before the server went down, swapping the priority
> of mail.makyo.org and jabog.tmdg.co.uk. Probably out of some vague
> belief that jabog has a more robust e-mail set-up than mail.makyo.org.
> 
> Now it's possible that, given the long TTL on my DNS records, and the
> different caching times on the two backup mail servers, that both
> thought that the other had a lower MX number for triv.org.uk. And had an
> entertaining, yet short-lived, game of SMTP tennis.
> 
> Bugger.
> 

At least I'm not guility this time.  :-)

Tom.
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