Details about Round robin behaviour ??

[Kevin Darcy]

Outside of sortlist interactions, I'm not aware of any difference 
between 9.2.3+ and 9.3.x in this area.

                                                                         
                                                   - Kevin

mathieu.millet at ratp.fr wrote:

>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>From : Kevin Darcy [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com] 
>>Sent : jeudi 3 mars 2005 00:19
>>To : bind-users at isc.org
>>Object : Re: Details about Round robin behaviour ??
>>
>>mathieu.millet at ratp.fr wrote:
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>>>	Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>I'm interesting in getting details about the behaviour of round robin 
>>>feature in Bind.
>>>
>>>More specially, can somebody tell me precisely :
>>>	- The default behaviour of Bind when you have multiple identical 
>>>RRsets with Bind 9.2.3+ and Bind 9.3.x ? Are all RRsets returned ? If 
>>>yes, in which order ?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>The default behavior of BIND is to filter out duplicate RRs. This is 
>>mandated by RFC 2181, Section 5. That's the answer to your first 
>>question, and renders the other 2 questions meaningless.
>>    
>>
>
>OK. Wrong term. So my question is : what is the default behaviour of BIND
>when you have multiple RRs with the same label, class and type (but not
>data) with Bind 9.2.3+ and Bind 9.3.x (Remember I have asked questions about
>Round Robin) ? ...
>
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>>>	- What is the support status of the option rrset-order (and
>>>orderclass) with Bind 9.2.3+ and Bind 9.3.x ?
>>>	- What does "rrset-order in more complete." mean (specified in Bind 
>>>9.3 Changes) ?
>>>
>>>I have already looked at Bind ARM and DNS&BIND from O'Reilly and I 
>>>can't find a conclusive answer to these questions (Maybe I didn't 
>>>understand the answers in these books ;o).
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Instead of asking these speculative questions, why don't you just 
>>configure what you want to configure and see if those 
>>versions of BIND 
>>behave they way you want them to? Sometimes an ounce of real-world 
>>testing and verification is worth a ton of code description and/or 
>>explanation...
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>>
>
>Sorry, but I'm getting confused with the behaviour of several Bind versions
>(I have tested) and I would like to have an answer from a Bind expert. Also,
>since I didn't find these informations in documentation and in archives, it
>would be a good idea to leave a trace for such questions.
>
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