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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)

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Fri, 15 June 2018 21:43 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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Erik Nygren wrote:
> ...
>
> This ambiguity in the current specifications results in this
> mismatch between the pedantic (rrsets are explicitly unordered, and a
> consistent order is a subset of that) and the current reality
> (applications and services rely on resolvers-at-scale to be
> explicitly inconsistent in the ordering of rrsets) is why I started
> off by proposing that we may need a BCP or informational RFC that
> describes the currently assumed defaults and best-practices (ie,
> round-robin is assumed in many places so don't consistently order
> at-scale by default).

i am +1 to this view, which is why i didn't suggest you move it to 
bind-workers@.

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P Vixie

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