From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 4:42:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12002.mail.yahoo.com (web12002.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3AAA37B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 04:42:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au) Message-ID: <20010421114232.93992.qmail@web12002.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.80.67.55] by web12002.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:42:32 EST Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:42:32 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= Subject: about how mail routing works To: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I was wondering about m entries in dns tables. I know I can label several mail server entries in order of primacy smallest to largest number so if a machine is down the next m entry mail server will hold the mail for the primary, temporarily off-line machine. How on earth does this work? Signed intrigued Keith Spencer _____________________________________________________________________________ http://store.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Store - It's time you had your business online! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message