Piotr Gbyliczek <pg AT forlinux.co DOT uk> wrote:

> On Sunday 14 December 2008 04:52:50 Devin Reade wrote:
>
>> If you have clients that are not on the same network as one of the
>> SD interfaces (or if you have clients with dumb resolvers that won't
>> do result record sorting based on connected interfaces), then you may be
>> able to tell your nameserver to sort the records.  (For example, see
>> the 'sortlist' statement for ISC BIND 9.)
> 
> As I was not aware of possibility, I have no idea if my clients are able to 
> chose networkwise closest IP from given. But we have mostly CentOS 5 on 
> servers, so if linux can do that, then yes.

Yes, CentOS works fine WRT sorting IPs; that and OpenBSD are what I 
primarily use in-house.  I expect that most modern UNIX variants have
resolver libraries that will properly sort the resource records.

Devin


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