Re: interop problems with getaddrinfo() address selection

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

>>> It appears we're talking about differnet things.  To me, DNS
>>> round-robin refers to the sort of thing the NTP pool project does:
>>> rotating the answer(s) returned in response to a query through a
>>> larger (usually much larger) set of possible answers.
>>>       
>> That's incompatible with RFC 2181 section 5
>>     
>
> I read through 2181 section 5 and the only thing I see that seems
> plausible to me as what you're talking about is 5.1: "A query for a
> specific (or non-specific) label, class, and type, will always return
> all records in the associated RRSet".
>
> All you need to do here is hold your mind a little differently - think
> of it as changing the RRset instead of returning only some of the
> records from an unchanging RRset.
>   
which is fine if and only if it increments the zone serial # each time.

Keith