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Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> A series of queries using dig for aol.com or cnn.com shows that each
> occurence returns MX and A records in a different order.

To extend a little bit, that's the so called Round Robin method of load 
balancing that is
implemented into DNS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin_DNS

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