Search Again: multiple MX records From: Nicolas Murphy Date: Sunday, October 12, 2003 Time: 7:56:51 pm To: cbuxton@menandmice.com From: Nicolas Murphy <nmurphy@vendornation.com> Subject: Multiple MX records Cc: I have a DNS record set up like below: example.com. NS dns.example.com. example.com. NS dns2.example.com. example.com. NS dns3.example.com. example.com. A 192.168.0.1 mail.example.com. A 192.168.0.2 mail2.example.com. A 192.168.0.3 example.com. MX 10 mail.example.com. example.com. MX 20 mail2.example.com. Now I would expect that mail going to user@example.com would go to 192.168.0.2 since the priority is 10 and the server is functioning, however I've been watching mail go to both mail and mail2 and I'm wondering why. I was under the impression that the higher priority, primary server would get all the mail unless it couldn't be reached. However it seems that mail is getting routed to both primary and backup. Can some brilliant mind shed some light on this for me? -- Sincerely, Nicolas Murphy CEO Vendor Nation email: nmurphy@vendornation.com tele: 805.545.7860 fax: 805.545.7806 www.mbdservices.com www.vendornation.com www.monkeybyte.com --- This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

Messages In This Thread: multiple MX records by Nicolas Murphy on Oct 12, 2003 at 7:56:51 pm Re: multiple MX records by Len Conrad on Oct 12, 2003 at 8:20:54 pm Re: multiple MX records by Nicolas Murphy on Oct 12, 2003 at 8:45:19 pm Re: multiple MX records by Len Conrad on Oct 13, 2003 at 12:01:35 am