BIND 'sortlist' preferred IP address

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Sat Aug 7 20:28:55 UTC 1999


> Can you expand on this "no".
> I thought it would return the response in sortlist order rather than
> round robin. After all, if it matches the first thing in the sortlist,
> why would you want the second? After all the default sortlist was (at
> least in 4.x) the local subnet followed by the network. If you had a
> match on the local subnet, you wouldn't round robin with something on
> the same network, but on a different subnet. Or am I just confused?

I guess you're just confused.  The sortlist has always sorted the addresses
in a multiple address response, but all address records are still returned.

cricket



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