From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 17:53:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copper.singnet.com.sg (smtp2.singnet.com.sg [165.21.7.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F94214E2C for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hsengyip@singnet.com.sg) Received: from pc (qtns03534.singnet.com.sg [165.21.168.164]) by copper.singnet.com.sg (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA06106 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:53:43 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <002301bf1c28$d93d3540$0d7315a5@pc> From: "Ho Seng Yip" To: Subject: DNS Record Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:59:47 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have two SMTP servers and will like to edit the DNS record for the domain such that if the first stmp server fails, the mail client should try the second one. I have such a record, smtp 8H IN CNAME smtpserver1 8H IN CNAME smtpserver2 When I try to ping smtp.mydomain.com, it gives me the IP address of the first domain and when I try to ping again, it gives me the IP address of the second domain. Is this how it should be done? Thank you. Regards, Seng Yip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message