RFC 974 - Mail Routing and the Domain System

Wed Sep 16 17:08:04 UTC 1998

Studded wrote:

>         BIND will round robin the MX records, how mail agents deal with
> multiple MX records of the same priority is less of a known factor (to
> me at least). Actually I'd be interested to hear from people who try
> both configurations for say a month at a time to see what influence each
> configuration has if any.

I was just looking at this code in sendmail the other day. sendmail will
randomize when it gets multiple MX records of the same priority. Look at
mxrand() in domain.c.

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