mx vs ns

[Olafur Osvaldsson]

Mij,

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Mij wrote:

> is it prudent to have 4 ns and just 1 mail exchanger?

I see nothing wrong with this setup as when a MX is down the
mail gets queued at the sender server untill the MX is reachable
again but NS requests don't queue up and people get impatient
so multiple NS records are needed but not multiple MX.

Also, multiple MX servers makes more work for the postmaster
in regard to filters and such in addition to be not needed.

/Oli

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