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From: xiaoy@bullet.ecf (XIAO  Yan)
Subject: Reliablity: two machines with one name?
Message-ID: <1991May24.133115.12665@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu>
Sender: xiaoy@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO  Yan)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 24 May 91 13:31:15 GMT

Don't know whether this is the most proper place to make this request.

If I give two machines the same name (with different IP address), will I
get more reliability in terms of mail function?

Right now whenever our major e-mail machine (call it A) is down, I make 
another machine (call it B) act like A by setting B's host_id to A's
and we don't seem to lose any mail.  

Is sendmail smart enough, or is it usually configured in a way, 
that if no response from A, then check some other machine(s)
(say B) with the same name as A?

Xiao
<xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu>