Address Sorting NOT in V8

[craigjca at my-deja.com]

I found rrset-order in the source for named, but it isn't discussed in
O'Reilly from what I can tell.  What is the best place to find details
on this topic?

Again, what I need.  If I'm on network A, and the server I am trying to
connect to is on A, B, and C (by the same name), when I do an "nslookup
server" I should always get back the servers A address first.



In article <OFaE4.45$5p5.1536 at burlma1-snr2>,
Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote:
> In article <8br6fo$qbu$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, <craigjca at my-deja.com>
wrote:
> >Version 4 of BIND contained a very useful tool
> >called address sorting. This was great for
> >multihomed hosts - you look up a name, and you'd
> >get back the network address of the network you
> >were on. If you weren't on any of networks the
> >multihomed host was, then BIND roundrobined.
> >
> >For some reason, they have apparently left this
> >feature out of V8. Does anyone know why? Is
> >there a way to turn it back on?
>
> Is "rrset-order" what you want?
>
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