[lug] MX host question

[Nick Golder]

On 2004-08-17 08:47 -0600, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I had a question about MX hosts.  If one has 2 or more MX hosts
> within a domain, do they all need to know the names of all the users?
> 
> If I have 2 hosts, but only one host knows all the users on the domain
> machines, how do I ensure that mail sent to the aux. MX machine gets to
> the main mail machine?
> 

I am breaking this thread.

The secondary MX doesn't need to know all the users on the primary MX.
It does  need to know that it is a secondary MX for foo.com, though.

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-Nick Golder