On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:13 PM Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 11:45:19AM -0400, Erik Nygren wrote: > > A number of folks have been bitten by a bug in bind 9..12 where it > silently > > changes the default sorting of rrsets to always be sorted (even if the > > authoritative response wasn't sorted). > > I believe that RRsets are unordered sets by definition. So I supect > that if people are relying on the order in which they come off the > wire, they're making a mistake. > This is all true. Yet, large numbers of application services on the Internet already rely on the assumption that address RRsets are returned from resolvers in a shuffled or randomized order for load balancing reasons. So changing this behavior will elicit many fierce complaints (I already observed it). -- Shumon.
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