[Mimedefang] Many many MX records

[Gary Funck]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David F. Skoll
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:37 AM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] Many many MX records
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Gary Funck wrote:
> 
> > How about
> >     Domain.com      IN MX 100       spamtrap.domain.com
> 
> But what if all your other MX records are down or unreachable?  You'll
> blacklist a whole bunch of innocent mail.
>

My thinking was that this would be virtual host, resident on the
same physical system. Thus, if the main MX isn't working, due to hardware
failure neither is the backup. Then, as I thought about this some more,
I realized that the main MX could be broken due to software or operator
failure, and that would be bad.