On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:44:31 +0000 (UTC)
"Martin J. Laubach" <mjl@NetBSD.org> wrote:


> 
>   (3) The "sortlist" parameter in /etc/resolv.conf seems to have ceased
> to work: Even though I have a sortlist 212.16.40.152/255.255.255.248,
> a "ping fw" round robins between all of fw's ip addresses:
> 
> 	asparagus:35 [~] $ ping -c1 fw
> 	PING fw.emsi.priv.at (212.16.40.130): 56 data bytes
> 	..
> 	asparagus:36 [~] $ ping -c1 fw
> 	PING fw.emsi.priv.at (212.16.40.153): 56 data bytes
> 	..
> 	asparagus:37 [~] $ ping -c1 fw
> 	PING fw.emsi.priv.at (212.16.40.145): 56 data bytes
> 
>   I believe this has worked with 1.5 and 1.6, not sure about 2.x.
> 
> 
>     Regards,
> 
> 	mjl


netsbd 3 uses bind v9, while previous versions use v8. 
If I recall correctly, bind v9 is missing a few features
which v8 had, e.g. sortlist. You can always install bind 8 from pkgsrc
should you require that functionality.

-- 
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
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