On ven, sep 07, 2007 at 07:15:42 +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:46:54PM +0000, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Also note that probably many many Windows machines work that way (the
> RFC was written by a MS guy). And this behaviour impacts software
> developpers, and people that hoped that having multiple A records for
> their service will see a perfect round robin will be stuck anyways. I
> mean, it's non previous-practice-backward-compliant and one can argue
> reasonably it sucks. But hel-llooo ! this kind of "design" choice is not
> only local. If every one (or the majority) on the internet behaves like
> this, fixing this "bug" (if it is really one) in Debian will _not_, I
> say _not_ prevent us from fixing many software that rely on DNS round
> robin, because OTHER PARTIES will use the RFC-foo algorithm, and WE will
> have to cope with that whatever choice is made.
On that matter, according to Aurélien, Vista (maybe XP),
{Open,Net,Free}BSD follow the RFC. Other OSes could be tested (MacOS X
and solaris come to mind). So it's kind of a decision of Debian vs. the
rest of the world. And if I don't really care about the issue of the
decision technically, this aspect worries me.
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