I think if you go through the logs you will see that the servers handling a retries of a specific mail are all on the same subnet.
That's what I observed.
/john
\ufffdOn Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 09:24:27AM +0200, Christian P\ufffdlissier Christian.Pelissier@... [milter-greylist] wrote:
> For example gmail has four MX CIDR:74.125.0.0/16
> and one in CIDR:108.177.0.0/17
>
> # dig +short MX gmail.com
> 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> # dig +short alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 74.125.205.26
> # dig +short alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 74.125.68.26
> # dig +short alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 108.177.125.26
> # dig +short alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 74.125.195.26
> # dig +short gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> 74.125.206.27
But if you look at the SPF records for gmail.com, which I think are more
relevant than the MX records for this purpose, you see more subnets:
dig +short -t txt gmail.com
"v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com"
This expands to:
ip4:35.190.247.0/24
ip4:64.233.160.0/19
ip4:66.102.0.0/20
ip4:66.249.80.0/20
ip4:72.14.192.0/18
ip4:74.125.0.0/16
ip4:108.177.8.0/21
ip4:173.194.0.0/16
ip4:209.85.128.0/17
ip4:216.58.192.0/19
ip4:216.239.32.0/19
ip6:2001:4860:4000::/36
ip6:2404:6800:4000::/36
ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36
ip6:2800:3f0:4000::/36
ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36
ip6:2c0f:fb50:4000::/36
ip4:172.217.0.0/19
ip4:172.217.32.0/20
ip4:172.217.128.0/19
ip4:172.217.160.0/20
ip4:172.217.192.0/19
ip4:108.177.96.0/19
ip4:35.191.0.0/16
ip4:130.211.0.0/22
Regards,
Andy