rDNS Round-Robin

[Kevin Darcy]

Bryan Irvine wrote:
> Other than to really annoy me;  is there a valid reason for rr rDNS?
>
>   
Once upon a time, BIND specifically *disabled* round-robin behavior for 
non-address (A/AAAA) record types. PTR RRsets, among other types, were 
always given in a "fixed" order.

But, I just tried a quick test, and it appears that round-robin has been 
re-enabled for PTRs. Accident? I have no idea why anyone would want this 
behavior, except perhaps to deliberately make things annoying and the 
query results inconsistent, in the hopes that people will prevent the 
creation of round-robin PTRs in the first place.

By the way, as a personal preference, I hate the term "rDNS". Sounds 
like a whole different protocol, much as "rwhois" is a different 
protocol from the original "whois". But this is misleading, since it's 
merely a different way (special naming convention and a semi-special 
QTYPE) of using the *same* protocol.

- Kevin