Re: [DNSOP] Order of CNAME and A in Authoritative Reply.

2015-08-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi G, How specific is the ordering dependency by resolver code variant? by version? If this becomes a candidate for typing specific resolvers, its useful knowledge It varies quite a bit with the few I looked at, see https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/wdopuAP2ddLlQcdtX-iAWdUULZ8 for

Re: [DNSOP] Order of CNAME and A in Authoritative Reply.

2015-08-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Paul, added really does just mean added not inserted. I don't know what that means. If you add something to an unordered set and then ask for the contents of the set, the order you'll get its contents is undefined. why do you call a section a set? Because it isn't stated

Re: [DNSOP] Order of CNAME and A in Authoritative Reply.

2015-08-13 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20150813133446.78c4228...@orac.inputplus.co.uk, Ralph Corderoy wri tes: Hi Paul, added really does just mean added not inserted. I don't know what that means. If you add something to an unordered set and then ask for the contents of the set, the order you'll get its

Re: [DNSOP] Order of CNAME and A in Authoritative Reply.

2015-08-13 Thread Robert Edmonds
神明達哉 wrote: At Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:23:59 -0400, Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com wrote: So we are in agreement that glibc's stub resolver is acting really dumb here? I think that's overstating it. It appears that glibc implemented the protocol according to a widely-held