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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Reliablity: two machines with one name?
Message-ID: <1991May24.135350.30527@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 13:53:50 GMT
References: <1991May24.133115.12665@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991May24.133115.12665@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu> xiaoy@bullet.ecf (XIAO  Yan) writes:
>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?

  No.  You will finish up with a disaster.

  Learn about using nameservers and MX records.  They are the solution to
your problem.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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