CNAME+A record in response

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Jun 29 10:57:33 UTC 2012


On 06/29/2012 07:50 AM, Srinivas Krishnan wrote:
> A lot of times we get responses that look like:
>
> FOO.BAR CNAME EXAMPLE.BAR
> EXAMPLE.BAR A 1.1.1.1
>
>
> BIND currently (atleast with the default settings) when it encounters
> a CNAME stops processing and checks if EXAMPLE.BAR is in cache or else
> sends out another query to resolve it even though the A record in the
> packet completes the chain.
>
> Now, is there a setting in BIND to accept the A record or do providers

I'm curious why you want to change this behaviour.



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