How faster is using an internal IP address instead of an external one?

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Published on 2010-05-25T05:58:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 6:01 UTC
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I have a mailing list application that sends emails through several dedicated SMTP servers (running Linux Debian 5 and Postfix) in the same network of a hosting company.

However, the application is using the servers' external IP addresses in order to connect to them over SMTP, and I was wondering what kind of improvement would be obtained if the application used the internal IP addresses of the servers instead?

Thank you in advance for your insight.

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How faster is using an internal IP address instead of an external one?

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Published on 2010-05-25T05:58:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 8:41 UTC
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I have a mailing list application that sends emails through several dedicated SMTP servers (running Linux Debian 5 and Postfix) in the same network of a hosting company.

However, the application is using the servers' external IP addresses in order to connect to them over SMTP, and I was wondering what kind of improvement would be obtained if the application used the internal IP addresses of the servers instead?

Thank you in advance for your insight.

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