Re: The internet architecture
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Re: The internet architecture



On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:06:54PM +0900,
 Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote 
 a message of 25 lines which said:

> If an SMTP or DNS server has multiple addresses, clients are
> required, practically (many servers are behind firewalls) or, for
> DNS, officially by RFC1035, to try all the IP addresses of the
> server,

Yes, SMTP requires to try all the IP addresses of the MX. But I
thought you said that it was required for a MX to have several
addresses, which is quite different.
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