Jason Newland wrote:
>  ...
> < The preference of 10 (repeated) indicates that these systems will
> do a "round robin" approach to load balancing.

Its not "round robin", the RFC is quite explicit about this:
   Multiple MX records contain a preference indication that MUST be used
   in sorting (see below).  Lower numbers are more preferred than higher
   ones.  If there are multiple destinations with the same preference
   and there is no clear reason to favor one (e.g., by recognition of an
   easily-reached address), then the sender-SMTP MUST randomize them to
   spread the load across multiple mail exchangers for a specific
   organization.

If its truly randomized then eventually it should pick one that works.

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