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Re: Google DNS problems?!?

  • From: aljuhani
  • Date: Sun May 08 14:38:22 2005 
On 8 May 2005, at 21:13, Andy Davidson wrote:

> 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.

Yes you are right .. perhaps I did not put my point right when I mentioned
load balancing, I was trying to see the affect of DNS outage on Gmail
Services.

-aljuhani