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

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

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 a common mistake with unordered data sets; it results in lots
of complaints about SQL data responses, too, for instance.  (Of
course, in that case you always have the option of using an ORDER BY
clause, which we don't have in the DNS.)

Best regards,

A

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