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From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
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Subject: Re: host -t requests.
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Tom <tom@uniserve.com> probably said:

Under normal circumstances ...

>   There is no order to DNS records.

... with the exception of PTR records.

bind does not round robin PTR records, and has code for deciding what
order/method to give out other records depending on fun things like
network topology.

Other name servers may differ.

P.

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