Round Robin fails in bind 9.2.1 for a large packet (TCP) or big number of items

Manuel manfer15 at terra.es
Wed Dec 3 10:56:25 UTC 2003


Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote in message news:<bqgc1r$1v03$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> > I have a bind 9.2.1 installation to support Microsoft Active
> > Directory. The case is that in one of my Microsoft domains I have
> > about 40 domain controlers. then when a windows 2000/XP client ask for
> > logon to domain always ask the same Domain controler for logon and
> > site asignation, that is the first resource record returned by BIND in
> > a respose to a question for resolve the A records for "mydomain.com"
> > that is because BIND servers never Round Robin for this question and
> > always return the A registers in the same order.
> > I have anothers Microsoft domains and the Round Robin works fine,
> > because I have only 2 or 6 Domain Controlers for these Domains and the
> > Round Robin always works.
> > I´m looking for solutions in bind 9 but the only thing I see is
> > rrset-order option but it is not yet implemented in bind 9.2.1
> > 
> > 
> > Is there any patch for BIND to solve this bug?
> > Is there anybody with the same problem? and if this is the case, Some
> > sugestions to solve this matter?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot
> > Regard
> > Manuel Fernández
> > 
> 
> lib/dns/rdataset.c:#define MAX_SHUFFLE     32


I´ll try it
Thank you very much Mark
I´ll keep informed of my progress in this matter.

Manuel Fernández


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