Tobias DiPasquale on 20 Oct 2003 08:06:02 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] random delivery times


On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 08:00, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:19:16AM -0400, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> > Have you ever gotten a reply from a post before you received the post
> > itself on this list? Happens to me all the time.
> 
> And it probably happens to everyone in your domain all the time.
> This is officially a misconfiguration:
> 
> cbcg.net mail is handled (pri=0) by mx2.swarthy.mail.dreamhost.net
> cbcg.net mail is handled (pri=0) by mx1.swarthy.mail.dreamhost.net
> 
> That means that the sending SMTP is left to choose randomly between
> those to mail exchangers.
> 
> I presume they synchronize at some point, but apparently that's less
> frequent than "every two hours", judging by your time loss between
> messages, so not all that frequent.

Excellent observation, my man. :) I had forgotten about that. Thanks
very much; I'll talk to DreamHost about shortening that MX or something
similar. Once again, thanks for pointing that out :)

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