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Re: Google DNS problems?!?


From: "aljuhani" <info () riyadmail com>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 21:37:13 +0300


On 8 May 2005, at 21:13, Andy Davidson wrote:

gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com is at least two machines, but much more
likely to be at least two clusters of machines ... :

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN      A       64.233.185.27
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN      A       64.233.185.114


.. load-balanced in some way.  One MX record doesn't mean one machine
and no load-balancing by any means.

Yes you are right .. perhaps I did not put my point right when I mentioned
load balancing, I was trying to see the affect of DNS outage on Gmail
Services.

-aljuhani




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