thoughts on views and zone transfers

[Kevin Darcy]

Anne Bennett wrote:

>Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> responds to me:
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>>If this is just a network optimization, and it wouldn't be the end of 
>>the world for a client to occasionally cross VLANs to get to its server,
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>I just checked with our network people; that seems to be the case.
>There is some packetfiltering, but we think we can handle any special
>cases in that area.
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>However, I have just read the description of sortlists; why *would*
>a client ever get the wrong server, in this scenario (assuming I had
>configured the sortlists correctly)?  Hmm, my thought is that the server
>would return the responses sorted correctly, but the client might for some
>reason disregard the ordering and use an address other than the first
>(though I don't see why it would).  I suppose the other possibility is
>that a busy network might cause an attempt to access the first address
>to time out, and the client might fall back to another address.  Am I
>understanding this correctly?
>
I was thinking mainly of the timeout scenario. But I suppose it's 
possible some weird app out there might also rearrange the addresses for 
some unfathomable reason...

                                                                         
                                 - Kevin