DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7lar6o$jvp$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Shonne  <shonne at my-deja.com> wrote:
>I am trying to implement DNS using Linux.  My problem is I have two
>mail servers (mali1 and mail2).  On the network, I need all mail to go
>either of the two mail servers.  I added a mail exchange entry in the
>DNS db, but how can I be assured that user at domain.com's mail will be
>sent to either mail1 or mail2, depending on where the account is
>stored.  The accounts are stored on either machone, but not
>duplicated.  Each user has an account of either mail1 or mail2.  Can
>anyone help?

You can't do this with DNS.  You need to set up aliases on each system that
will forward mail for users on the other machine.  So on mail1 you would
have

user1: user1 at mail2.domain.com
user2: user2 at mail2.domain.com

for each user whose account is on the other system.

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