Some domains are being read off the secondary DNS instead of the primary DNS first

[Mark Andrews]

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 04:05:59PM -0600, The Doctor wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:06:10PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote:
> > > At 12:00 PM 7/18/2005, The Doctor wrote:
> > > >I did an nslookup on some of my domains and instead of primary and
> > > >secondary listed in order, I got secondary and primary listed in order
> > > >of preference.  I also reversed a few in the DNS record so that the prim
> ary
> > > >and secondary should be listed in order of preference of primary first.
> > > >
> > > >What is going wrong?
> > > 
> > > Nothing. That's the expected behavior. By default, multiple records 
> > > are served up in a round robin fashion.
> > > 
> > > Look into "rrset-order" if you want to change this.
> > >
> > 
> > In the zone record or the named.conf file?
> > 
> > Just want to make certain I get this correct.
> >
> 
> I did add
> rrset-order{
> 	class ANY type ANY name "*" order fixed;
> }  ;
> 
> And still there erroneous condition described as above persists.

	Firstly "fixed" is documented as not working in BIND 9.

	Secondly why do you care what order the nameservers are
	returned in?  They should all have the *same* data on them
	and the remote nameserver will work out which nameserver is
	faster for them based on rtt estimates.  At best you will
	influence the first query.
 
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