Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Fred Morris
It's incredibly hacky, but what about setting different nameservers with different sets of addresses for the FQDN in question? -- Fred ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users maili

Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 21 Mar 2020, at 04:22, Bob Harold wrote: > > Do you know why the OS is having a problem? It just occurs to me that the > problem might be that the result does not fit in a UDP packet, (without > EDNS?) and the fallback to TCP is not working. Can you try 'dig ...' and > 'dig +tcp ...'

Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 3/20/20 1:14 AM, David Klatt wrote: Hi, Hi, Now I'd like bind to just return a random subset of e.g. 5 IP addresses if someone requests this A record. Hum. That sounds quite contrary to the typical BIND behavior. Reason for this are in my case some (thousands) older clients (that I ca

Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Bob Harold
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:16 PM Warren Kumari wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:04 PM Matus UHLAR - fantomas > wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:14 AM David Klatt wrote: > > >> I can't find a way to do the following although I invested plenty of > time > > >> in research - maybe you gu

Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Warren Kumari
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:04 PM Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:14 AM David Klatt wrote: > >> I can't find a way to do the following although I invested plenty of time > >> in research - maybe you guys have an idea: > >> > >> With bind, I'd need to serve a single A re

Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:14 AM David Klatt wrote: I can't find a way to do the following although I invested plenty of time in research - maybe you guys have an idea: With bind, I'd need to serve a single A record with 30+ IP addresses and these addresses have to be returned in random order

Re: 9.16 on older platforms

2020-03-20 Thread Chuck Aurora
On 2020-03-19 14:53, Rick Dicaire wrote: Hi folks, I have found that new dependencies for 9.16 prevent it being able to build on Slackware linux 14.2 (no ply or libuv). (Yes I'm aware I can do the additional steps of downloading, compiling, installing the deps, but that's not the point) FWIW bo

Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Warren Kumari
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:14 AM David Klatt wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't find a way to do the following although I invested plenty of time > in research - maybe you guys have an idea: > > With bind, I'd need to serve a single A record with 30+ IP addresses and > these addresses have to be returne

Re: New releases of BIND are available: 9.11.17, 9.16.1, and 9.17.0

2020-03-20 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Hello, On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:25 PM Michael McNally wrote: > > New releases of BIND are available which contain bug fixes and feature > improvements. > You can download them from the ISC website: > >https://www.isc.org/downloads > > Release notes can be found via these links: > > Stable r

Re: How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread Kevin Darcy
[ Classification Level: GENERAL BUSINESS ] Only thing that comes to mind is a constantly-running dynamic update script that adds/deletes records to/from the RRset at random. A more sophisticated version of the script would look at what answers that have been given out in the recent past, and if s

How to get random subset of large rrset (30+ IPs for round robin)?

2020-03-20 Thread David Klatt
Hi, I can't find a way to do the following although I invested plenty of time in research - maybe you guys have an idea: With bind, I'd need to serve a single A record with 30+ IP addresses and these addresses have to be returned in random order round robin, which is done with: rrset-orde