MX question

[Brian Dickson]

Kevin Darcy wrote:

> William Stacey wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Of course, I'm not so naive to think all implementations follow standards.
>> 
>> But
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>>> it's hard to know what form of standards non-compliance Microsoft was
>> 
>> trying to
>> 
>>> accommodate with this multiple-A scheme.
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>> I fail to see how bashing MS has any relavance to this question.  aol and
>> yahoo do the same thing.
> 
> 
> Um, the domain in question was microsoft.com, not aol.com or yahoo.com. Look at
> the message which started the thread.
> 
> 
> - Kevin

Yeah, but he is saying that they do it also.  It's for load balancing 
with cluster volumes.  Basically, both machines point to a harddrive 
farm and if one loosing it's connection the other still has the connect 
and you use that one instead.

Brian