Order and Preference Priority in DNS Responses

[Ray Bellis]

On 03/08/2015 12:38, Harshith Mulky wrote:

> I am expecting to receive the answer as _sip._udp.carrier1.com but i
> receive _sip._tcp.carrier1.com
> 
> How could I change this?

For applications that use NAPTR records it's the job of the client
application to process and sort the entire set of NAPTR records based on
the Order and Preference fields.

The order of the records as sent back in the DNS packet is therefore
irrelevant.

Ray