Please find attached the answer from upstream about this problem.
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I think libc is completely correct in what it's doing. The bug is in NTP.
Historically, there is some ambiguity in the interpretation of
multiple addresses returned by a DNS query. One possible
interpretation is to consider all the addresses as equivalent, and
therefore to try to sort them on
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:15:03PM +, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
The reason we have that sorting is to get consistency.
I won't add such an option to disturb it. Not to sort is completely,
utterly wrong since the order in which addresses are returned from the
service are more or less
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