Re: more than 8 answers

Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Mircea Hutanu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am the customer of a managed DNS service that uses TinyDNS and I
> have a zone with 16 A records for the same subdomain.

Out of curiosity, why? Is it important that every client receive all
16 A records? tinydns's current behavior means each client will
receive a random subset of 8 of these records.

> I need to know if it's
> possible to make the DNS servers to return the whole 16 A records and
> what needs to be changed in the TinyDNS server setup to enable this
> option.

Not easily; it's hard coded into tinydns (specifically, tdlookup.c).
It's not hard to change, but it would affect all queries handled by
tinydns.
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