Fixing the order in which multiple records of the same type are returned

[Barry Margolin]

In article <e3ab5p$140f$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Revital Gorsht <revital at yorku.ca> wrote:

> We recently upgraded from BIND 8 to 9 (9.3.1) and are finding that the 
> cyclic nature of responses is something we do not require and would like 
> to prevent from happening.  Knowing that the fixed order option for 
> rrset-order is not implemented in BIND 9, is there any other way to make 
> sure records are always returned in the same order?
> Thanks.

Even if you fix the order on your server, any server that caches your 
responses will still cycle them, so remote clients will not obey the 
order you use.  So if you could do this it would only have an effect on 
local users looking things up in your own domains.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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