disabling round robin in bind 8

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows if there's a way to disable round robin
> in bind 8 using through the config files rather than having to recompile
> named.  If I have 2 addresses for a host, I would like a query to return
> only the first address instead of rotating between the two.
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> Khoi
> 
> 
> 
	BIND has no way to return only one address of a set of
	addresses.  This is regardless of whether the order is
	fixed / random / cyclic.

	If you want all the addresses returned in a fixed order
	see options, rrset-order and / or sortlist.  rrset-order
	is available in BIND 8.2.1.

	Mark
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