Configuration file ordering

Knot seems very picky about in which order the configuration statements are included. Is there any specific reason the entire configuration is not read first, then parsed as a whole?

The reason is that it's implemented this way :-) Configuration file is processed directly when parsing in order to be efficient.

What exactly is a problem for you?

A reliable section ordering can be found at https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-dns/-/blob/master/src/knot/conf/schema.c#L482

When teaching Knot to first time users (like today at .DK), this is one of the first things that hit them. I've learned to live with it :-)

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