In message <53d706300907081412r191946eeo5c9a66657bf8e...@mail.gmail.com>, Bryan Irvine writes: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Kevin Darcy<k...@chrysler.com> wrote: > > Bryan Irvine wrote: > >> > >> Other than to really annoy me; =A0is there a valid reason for rr rDNS? > >> > >> > > > > Once upon a time, BIND specifically *disabled* round-robin behavior for > > non-address (A/AAAA) record types. PTR RRsets, among other types, were > > always given in a "fixed" order. > > > > But, I just tried a quick test, and it appears that round-robin has been > > re-enabled for PTRs. Accident? I have no idea why anyone would want this > > behavior, except perhaps to deliberately make things annoying and the que= > ry > > results inconsistent, in the hopes that people will prevent the creation = > of > > round-robin PTRs in the first place. > > Yes but is it explicitely forbidden anywhere? RFC's maybe? I can't > find anything that says you shouldn't other than the majority of > people say it's dumb. (Sometimes you need an RFC to point to in order > to get someone to fix something that is clearly not working > correctly). > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
RRsets are unordered. Software and configurations should be prepared for this. Where ordering is required it is built into the RR type. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users