Deprecation notice force BIND 9.20+: "rrset-order fixed" and "sortlist"

[Jim Reid]

> On 1 Mar 2024, at 10:37, Greg Choules via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> In summary, Do the hard work of traffic steering somewhere else and let your DNS resolvers deliver the chosen answer. Don't make the resolvers themselves try to do this on the basis of incomplete information.

Well said Greg!

Leave it to the application to decide which is the best* address in the list of addresses returned from a DNS lookup.

IMO the DNS (mostly) provides name-address mapping info and it’s up to whoever receives that info to decide how it gets processed and acted on. This is not a job for BIND or other DNS servers.

* For some definition of best