The RedHat 6.2 system (with glibc 2.1.3) that I'm testing on here
doesn't seem to support it. Assuming I'm doing it correctly, after
placing in a "sortlist" line in the "resolv.conf" it still does not
sort.
So, are you sure?
- Matt
PS: Thanks for the quick response.
"Mark A. Bentley" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote:
> > There's a Bugzilla bug in, 1467, titled 'resolver(5) "sortlist" option
> > missing' that was closed with an unacceptable resolution. The issue,
> > which we suffer from as well, is that the resolver libraries in "glibc"
> > on redhat don't support the "sortlist" option in "/etc/resolv.conf". The
> > "sortlist" option allows you to sort responses returned from BIND in
> > chosen network order and is particularly used to make lookups for hosts
> > with multiple interfaces work correctly when clients share some common
> > networks.
> >
>
> I believe this has been fixed. Initially I had to re-build glibc to get
> the sortlist options to work, but now, even without specifying a sortlist
> in /etc/resolv.conf, it works.
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.2 which uses glibc 2.1.3.
>
> As long as your nameservers shares a network with the client, it does
> appear to sort correctly now.
>
> --Mark
>
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