rrset-roundrobin

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Thu Apr 9 21:45:42 UTC 2020


On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Paul Vixie via Unbound-users wrote:

>> We recently got a feature request
>> (https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues/215) to change the default
>> value of 'rrset-roundrobin' from no to yes.
>
> i like this idea.

Me too.

> order is not supposed to be relied upon, but if order is preserved, then
> hidden reliance can creep into the system.

Funny, I want it mostly because people have a hidden reliance on it
giving a better load balancing for them, when "dumb" DNS consumers will
only pick the first entry of a response.

So I guess my reason to agree with you, does not agree with you :)

Paul


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