Re: Deprecation notice force BIND 9.20+: "rrset-order fixed" and "sortlist"

2024-03-01 Thread Marcus Kool
On 01/03/2024 11:02, Jim Reid wrote: On 1 Mar 2024, at 10:37, Greg Choules via bind-users wrote: In summary, Do the hard work of traffic steering somewhere else and let your DNS resolvers deliver the chosen answer. Don't make the resolvers themselves try to do this on the basis of

Re: Deprecation notice force BIND 9.20+: "rrset-order fixed" and "sortlist"

2024-03-01 Thread Jim Reid
> On 1 Mar 2024, at 10:37, Greg Choules via bind-users > wrote: > > In summary, Do the hard work of traffic steering somewhere else and let your > DNS resolvers deliver the chosen answer. Don't make the resolvers themselves > try to do this on the basis of incomplete information. Well said

Re: Deprecation notice force BIND 9.20+: "rrset-order fixed" and "sortlist"

2024-03-01 Thread Greg Choules via bind-users
2nd $beverage consumed. I have never liked sortlist since I inherited it 16 years ago in my previous job. For me it suffers from at least one fundamental problem: - If a client, say at location "1", is given a bunch of sorted A records with the server at location "1" first, what does the client

Re: Deprecation notice force BIND 9.20+: "rrset-order fixed" and "sortlist"

2024-03-01 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 1 Mar 2024, Matus UHLAR wrote: On 01.03.24 08:24, Ond?ej Sur? wrote: > The "sortlist" option allows to define a complicated rules when and > how to reorder the resource records in the responses. The same > caveats as with the "rrset-order" apply - relying on any specific >

Re: Deprecation notice force BIND 9.20+: "rrset-order fixed" and "sortlist"

2024-03-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01.03.24 08:24, Ondřej Surý wrote: The "sortlist" option allows to define a complicated rules when and how to reorder the resource records in the responses. The same caveats as with the "rrset-order" apply - relying on any specific order of resource records in the DNS responses is wrong. We

Deprecation notice force BIND 9.20+: "rrset-order fixed" and "sortlist"

2024-02-29 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hello, In line with ISC's deprecation policy, I am notifying the mailing list of our intent to deprecate the "sortlist" options and a value "fixed" for "rrset-order" option. These options allow to specify a on order of the resource records in the responses. The "fixed" value for "rrset-order"