BIND 'sortlist' preferred IP address

[Michael Voight]

Cricket Liu wrote:
> 
> > Can you expand on this "no".
> > I thought it would return the response in sortlist order rather than
> > round robin. After all, if it matches the first thing in the sortlist,
> > why would you want the second? After all the default sortlist was (at
> > least in 4.x) the local subnet followed by the network. If you had a
> > match on the local subnet, you wouldn't round robin with something on
> > the same network, but on a different subnet. Or am I just confused?
> 
> I guess you're just confused.  The sortlist has always sorted the addresses
> in a multiple address response, but all address records are still returned.
> 
> cricket

I was referring to the round robin comment. If they are in sort list
order, then they are not round robined.  I thought the only the
addresses not in the sortlist were round robined.  Correct?

Michael