[994] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Hmm, do you take bug reports directly?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kohl)
Sun Mar 26 17:15:50 1995
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 17:15:17 -0500
From: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
To: paul@vix.com
Cc: jtkohl@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9503262117.AA21492@gw.home.vix.com> (message from Paul A Vixie on Sun, 26 Mar 1995 13:17:04 -0800)
>>>>> "V" == Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> writes:
V> DNS has never guaranteed the order of the records returned. BIND randomizes
V> them now since it's a cheap way to balance the load. The bug in Hesiod, if
V> any, is that it has ever depended on the return order. Use separate names
V> for separate resources?
It's one resource, but there's a preferred ordering to the answers (one
is a "better"--more recent--copy of the same set of files).
I suppose a better fix would be to wack on the client code and data
maintenance tools to explicitly encode a preference order into the
hesiod text data, like MX preference values. This is Not Bloody Likely
to happen soon at MIT Athena, though :-(, as it probably means an
incompatible client data format change.
==John
