23 Jun
2005
23 Jun
'05
2:57 p.m.
Wild idea and there's just too much good german beer here at MAAWG (www.maawg.org) in Dusseldorf, but .. anybody tried anycasting a mailserver? Operationally that is ... On 23/06/05, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com> wrote:
You don't need a central MX if each site MTA knows which users are at which sites. Incoming email may have to take an extra hop if it comes in to the wrong site, but that's a consequence of the specification that no implementation can fix.
In other words, SMTP does not have the equivalent of an HTTP redirect which is what he wants here. Maybe SMTP really is broken? ;-)
--Michael Dillon
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