Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into dbkr/e2e_backups

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/handlers/room_member.py b/synapse/handlers/room_member.py

index f643619047..07fd3e82fc 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
@@ -583,6 +583,11 @@ class RoomMemberHandler(object):
         room_id = mapping["room_id"]
         servers = mapping["servers"]
 
+        # put the server which owns the alias at the front of the server list.
+        if room_alias.domain in servers:
+            servers.remove(room_alias.domain)
+        servers.insert(0, room_alias.domain)
+
         defer.returnValue((RoomID.from_string(room_id), servers))
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks