round robin DNS doesn't work with ping

I am on RHEL 8.7 and I notice the pinging a host (with multiple A records) always resolves it to one ip (lowest based on sort order of the ips returned).

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/22132?band=se&seSessionId=e3efb7d4-d82a-46ec-8731-ef3880ffe20e&seSource=Recommendation&seResourceOriginID=77974afd-2644-4168-aabb-fcf0f200a27d
describes exactly what I am seeing, however it also says that this is an issue only for 5/6/7 - so I assume it is fixed in 8. Also evidenced by https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/evergreen-assets/safelinks/1/atp-safelinks.html

But on an RHEL 8.7 system I have - I see the same old behavior.

any help/guidance appreciated