Shane Kerr wrote: > Obviously a DNS server would prefer not to have to do the work of > ordering queries. If you use cyclic order, then you have to maintain > state about the last answer. If you randomize it, then you need some > source of entropy. > > I haven't done a full search, but here's a quick look at support. > > On the authoritative side, BIND 9 of course offers any option (fixed > order, round-robin, or ranomized), whereas NSD and I believe Knot are > fixed. > > On the recursive side, BIND 9 again offers any response, whereas > Unbound is fixed (PowerDNS has a feature request for round-robin, but > is currently also fixed (*)).
Unbound actually does support both fixed and randomized, and the entropy is taken from an interesting place: the ID field from the query. -- Robert Edmonds _______________________________________________ dns-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dns-privacy
