DNS MX Load Balancing???

CJS clifs at bigfoot.com
Mon Jun 28 22:27:49 UTC 1999


I would like to load balance 2 Mail Servers via DNS.  I now have my 2
mail servers listed as MX records with equal priority levels.  Example
below:

mydomain.com      IN MX 1    mail1.mydomain.com
mydomain.com      IN MX 1    mail2.mydomain.com

However, I have heard that some Message Transfer Agents (specifically
bind 4.x) ignore the second server unless the first is down.  Is this
true and if so is this the best way to load balance mail servers?

Thanks, Clif

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