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 A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
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       Title     : DNS MX Record Deployment for Large Mail Sites           
       Author(s) : J. Myers
       Filename  : draft-myers-mail-largesite-00.txt
       Pages     : 6
       Date      : 12/17/1996

Domains which recieve a large number of incoming mail messages have a need 
to distribute incoming requests over a large number of SMTP servers.  The 
most obvious method for advertising DNS records these SMTP servers leads to
undesirable behavior when certain network failures occur.  For example, 
on XXXX, 1996 [XXXREF] a single routing failure at a large site led to the 
catastrophic failure of a large portion of mail systems on the Internet.  
This document gives recommendations for how large sites should advertise 
DNS records for their SMTP servers to avoid these problems and for how SMTP
client implementations should insulate themselves against large sites which
do not follow these recommendations.                                       

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     "get draft-myers-mail-largesite-00.txt".
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FILE /internet-drafts/draft-myers-mail-largesite-00.txt

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        site="ds.internic.net";
        access-type="anon-ftp";
        directory="internet-drafts"

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Content-ID: <19961217094740.I-D@ietf.org>

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