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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:12:06 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: The debacle of email (hi Steven)

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In <3E714A7A.3261@peterskye.com>, on 03/13/03
at 07:20 PM, Peter Skye said:

>The Domain Name Server returns a round-robin value for the
>requested MX (lurkers: Mail eXchanger) record. There are
>other ways to set up the DNS but round-robin is quite common.

That's not the way I understand it. If you look the raw response to an:

nslookup -q=MX earthlink.net

which should be equivalent to the request the mail server makes.
Everything comes back in a single IP packet. This implies up to the mail
server to do the round robin.

Next time you are near your sendmail box, get iptrace a try. It's
possible the mail server is making a different kind of request, but if so,
I've never found the definition. Got a pointer to where this might be
defined?

Steven

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