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Re: [DNSOP] BCP on rrset ordering for round-robin? Also head's up on bind 9.12 bug (sorting rrsets by default)

"Peter van Dijk" <peter.van.dijk@powerdns.com> Fri, 15 June 2018 18:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] BCP on rrset ordering for round-robin? Also head's up on bind 9.12 bug (sorting rrsets by default)
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Hello Andrew,

On 15 Jun 2018, at 19:12, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> 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. One hundred million times, this.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/

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