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Re: [DNSOP] interop problems with getaddrinfo() address selection

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Wed, 05 December 2007 09:00 UTC

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On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Edward Lewis wrote:
>
> Note that the RFC's text says "implementation" and not "application" or
> "protocol."  There isn't a standard DNS algorithm for choosing the server to
> be queried, the algorithms are up to the implementers (as the algorithm isn't
> an inter-operability issue) of DNS instances.

This is nothing to do with choice of nameserver. This is a stub resolver
implementation problem to do with query result manipulation.

Tony.
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