On 8 May 2005, at 17:07, aljuhani wrote:
Well I am not a DNS expert but why Google have the primary gmail MX record without load balancing and all secondaries are sharing the same priority level.
Huh ? [...]
1888 (97%) messages were gated through Gmail's Primary mail server (gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com).
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com is at least two machines, but much more likely to be at least two clusters of machines ... : ;; ANSWER SECTION: gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN A 64.233.185.27 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN A 64.233.185.114 .. load-balanced in some way. One MX record doesn't mean one machine and no load-balancing by any means. -- Regards, Andy Davidson http://www.fotoserve.com/ Great quality photo prints, gifts and clothing from digital photos.