My round-robin not behaving

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Tue Aug 24 06:54:51 UTC 1999


Gee, thanks Mark.
But, if it is statically identical, why bother changing it?

Thanks,

Michael Voight
Cisco TAC


Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> 
>         BIND 8.2 onwards randomly picks the start of the cyclic response.
>         This is statistically idential to the old behaviour.
> 
>         Note: on BSD based boxes the random number generator used does not
>         modify the LSB of the number returned.  BIND 8.2.2 codes around
>         this misfeature.
> 
>         Mark
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