one MX record points to many A records

Len Conrad LConrad at Go2France.com
Wed Sep 4 21:49:18 UTC 2002



>But these people have MORE than one MX.

so?

>Example given has a single MX. Will each address given for the single MX
>be tried until one works?

All MX's at a given preference will be tried, and must not respond, before 
moving on to the next preference.

Len



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