At 10:58 AM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>David -
>
>I don't even pretend to be a DNS expert,because I have no practical
>experience, only classroom.
>But I can tell you this, for any interface for which you have a hostname,
>you must get the exact same response to
>     nslookup <short_hostname>
>     nslookup <fully_qualified_hostname>
>     nslookup <IP_Address>
>every time you do it.
>
>James Shanks
>Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>

When DNS responds to a name resolution request, it sends all the address
records.  However, they are not always in the same order.

When you say "exact same response" does that mean that the same list of
addresses needs to be returned (good), or that they need to be returned in
the same order (bad)?

DTS
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