[Novalug] DNS and rrorder

Nick Danger nick at hackermonkey.com
Tue Jul 17 15:33:31 EDT 2007


I am running bind 9.4.1 on my main name servers and have to so I can use 
ordered entries. In my named.conf I have
            rrset-order { class in type A name 
"serverrrset.mydomain.com" order fixed; }

And then in the zone file I have two A records. The auth name server 
always gives the same order for the two servers, it works great.

The problem is that none of the resolvers anywhere else pays attention 
to this. They reorder the ips. So if I go against my other box running 
9.2.4 (whats with CentOS 4.5) it gives the two servers in different 
orders each time I look it up.

Is this the correct behavior? Or shouldnt the resolving host continue to 
serve in the order the authoritative hosts gives them?


-Nick


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