Bind 9.5.2-P1 and rrset-order

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Sat Feb 20 19:18:12 UTC 2010


> Denis Laventure wrote:
> > I have multiple ip adresses for one server:
> > 
> > www.mydomain.com <http://www.mydomain.com>                  
> > A             10.0.0.1
> > 
> > www.mydomain.com <http://www.mydomain.com>                  
> > A             10.0.0.2
> > 
> > www.mydomain.com <http://www.mydomain.com>                  
> > A             10.0.0.3
> > 
> > I need bind (I’m using 9.5.2-P1 on RedHat Linux Enterprise 5.4) to
> > always return the first one (10.0.0.1) for everyone. So I check the
> > Bind9 ARM and discovered the rrset-order option. It seems that using
> > this option I can force bind to do what I want for that host.

On 19.02.10 11:16, Alan Clegg wrote:
> It may not do everything that you are expecting, however.  Only the
> authoritative server will be required to pass the ordering of your RRSET
> out as you specify.  All intervening caching servers will re-order the
> records as they see fit.  The ordering of the RRSET is not guaranteed by
> the RFCs so if what you are trying to do works, you will be lucky, and
> the behavior may change at any time.

there's sortlist option that should do what he wants, however it depends on
source IP, not the destination RRset.
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