[systemd-devel] systemd-resolve and name servers order

[Rafał Jankowski]

W dniu 2023-10-11 09:50, Marc napisał(a):

> I think this is not how resolv.conf was designed to be used. Are you 
> 100% sure this is the only way to solve your issue? Having 3 different 
> nameservers reporting different results? Can't you do something with 
> views and sorting? What about just giving your server 3 different ip's 
> and configure the nameservers with specific views for that?

Three different nameservers reporting different results is not my 
design. It's something myself as end user I have been given and I have 
to live with. Whole company has to live with it. The solution you are 
describing is probably technically possible but that's not just one 
server - it's plenty of servers that are managed by different 
configuration systems that simply receive network settings via DHCP. 
Assigning three different IP addresses and configuring views (bind views 
I'm assuming?) adds massive complexity so I hoped some simpler solution 
will be possible.
In the past prior to systemd-resolve as a default solution the order I 
think was followed. From what I understand windows 
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/dd197552(v=ws.10) 
prefers first server on the list (it doesn't prefer secondary over 
tertiary but first one is preferred) so people got used to it. Now 
systemd-resolve doesn't seem to care about the order. Formally that 
might be a correct approach but this is a change to what we used to have 
in the past. So I think having possibility to follow the order would be 
something nice to have.