Address Sorting NOT in V8

[Kevin Darcy]

craigjca at my-deja.com wrote:

> OK!  Looks like ACL's and Sortlists work, though why they do, I'm still
> not sure of.
>
> I added this to named.conf:
>
> acl netA {
>   123.456.0/22;
> };
> acl netB {
>   123.456.4/22;
> };
> acl netC {
>   123.456.8/22;
> };
>
> options {
> sortlist {
>    netA;
>    netB;
>    netC;
> };
> };
>
> With this in place, any resolver request from netA gets back a netA
> address for the desired multi-homed host, netB gets back a netB, and
> netC gets back a netC address.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin.  Now, I have to dig into the docs so I
> can explain why this works.  Does anyone know when a new O'Reilly DNS
> book is coming out?

Not until after BIND 9 is released, probably...


- Kevin