How to reduce the number of IP address returned when resolving a big round robin DNS entry

[Chris Thompson]

On Dec 1 2006, Joseph S D Yao wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:21:44PM +0100, besnard michel wrote:
[...]
>> i saw that DJBDNS send 8 reponses from a random sets of hosts... a small and
>> good LB  function like i want
>
>In other words, it lied.  I do not want that!  An authoritative name
>server is supposed to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
>the truth [well, maybe some additional information ;-)].

Indeed, this particular feature of djbdns (default feature, I suppose
I should say, as I believe the 8 can be tweaked) makes it a very dubious
candidate as an authoritative nameserver. We had to abandon one of our
official slaves and renegotiate a new one precisely because of this issue.
(Well, OK, there's a bit more to the story than that...)

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk