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Does having a single routing master introduce a single point of failure?

April 26, 2017failure introduce master point routing

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Does having a single routing master introduce a single point of failure?

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No. Exchange 2000 may send mail to a server whose link is down, but mail will continue to flow, since Exchange will automatically switch to sub-optimal routing if a routing master fails. Exchange 2000 allows the administrator to manually change the routing master role from one server to another.