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So I'm a Windows / Network admin, have been for 2 years, but today I had a question that I didn't really know the answer to.

Say I do a nslookup, and the query retrieves 2 A records.

Which A records does say, a browser use?

If we do an nslookup for google.com, we get many responses. Is there a preferred address that windows uses? Is there any deciding factors?

Tom
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If you have three A records in example.com a,b,c

The first query will retrieve a.example.com

the second b.example.com

the third c.example.com, and the next will get a.example.com again.

This is known as round-robin DNS

Michael B
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