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Re: Google DNS problems?!?

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Sun May 08 12:26:01 2005 
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On 5/8/05, aljuhani <[email protected]> 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.

Has it occured to you that there are other ways of load balancing
mailserver clusters than just setting MX records?


And actually it's quite common to have only one MX record today if the secondaries have no clue of the valid recipients.
(to avoid queueing bounces)

Pete