Scott Morizot writes:

On 24 Jun 2005 at 12:48, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
I agree completely. It isn't bind randomness strategy per si that creates the distortion. Nor is Courier's MX choosing strategy either. It's the *interaction* of bind randomness strategy and Courier MX choosing strategy that produces the distortion.

Which reinforces my point, I think. If the administrator of the mail servers behind the MX records wants to ensure that all of their same priority MX'ed mail systems are attempted, they should put together their MX lists appropriately. Personally, I wouldn't mix a lot of same *and* different priority MX records in the MX list. I would either use all the

That's not how DNS works. A MX query returns all MX records, of all priorities, for a domain.


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