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[DNSOP] Re: ordering of RRSets in the answer section of a DNS response

Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> Mon, 19 January 2026 03:41 UTC

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Can we have both? RFC that says “there is no order in DNS” and having a section on “However, things might go boom”?

That way we don’t codify a bad practice, we codify a good practice and document the bad one.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)

> On 15. 1. 2026, at 0:45, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
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> So, to me, a document which says something like "While records are ethnically unordered, if you want your implementation to work in the real world, you need to put them in this order A → B → C.".

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