Stop inbound

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Drew Marshall wrote:
> Steve Campbell wrote:
>
>> AP,
>>
>> If you're concerned about an idle gateway, and these are your DNS MX
>> boxes,
>> I think (?) you can set up your MX records to be equal priority with a
>> short
>> TTL, thus creating a round-robin DNS.
>>
>>
> They wouldn't need a short TTL just the same priority. Most decent MTAs
> will use alternate MXs when there are two (Or more) MXs listed with the
> same priority.

I think he meant 'short TTL' so that if one server has a very long
outgoing queue, they can change the priority in favour of the other server.

Ugo

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