sobig.f and secondary MX

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> I have found some clues that sobig.f's SMTP engine likes to send to
> the secondary MX machine.
>
> What happens if I keep my secondary MX machine off line for a few days.

You can pretty much fool that. It was suggested before on the list btw.
Make a new MX, pointing to your primary one.

You now have:

10      MX      mx1.domain.net
100     MX      fallback.domain.net

Make that:

10      MX      mx1.domain.net
100     MX      fallback.domain.net
200     MX      alias.for.mx1.domain.net

Bye,
Raymond.