[Novalug] DNS and rrorder

[Ed T. Toton III]

Thus spake Nick Danger:

> 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?

I believe this is normal behavior. I think BIND treats the info the same 
no matter where it gets it (local authority zones files or remote 
resolution), so the resolvers will still attempt to do a round-robin 
response if they're not also configured to serve up a fixed order. The 
resolvers will cache the lookups and try to do the "normal" thing and 
rotate the results.


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