Resolving CNAMEs when pointing to another domain

G. Del Merritt dmerritt at intranets.com
Tue May 9 16:10:38 UTC 2000


At 07:23 PM 5/8/00 -0700, Eric A. Hall wrote:

> > The fly in the ointment is/(may be) that lbnamed isn't a recursive
> > server, and it's only authoritative for "mydomain.com".
>
>Yup, that's the problem. Your CNAME alias points to a canonical name in
>another domain, but the server isn't performing recursion so it isn't
>fetching the additional data. Your resolver probably isn't iterative
>either (not many are), so the only data you will get from the resolver
>will be the CNAME answer. If you want to complete the query, you'll have
>to reissue the query yourself.

Actually, it turns out (as I mentioned in another REPLY to this thread) 
that I shot myself in the foot by not looking for a CNAME when an A request 
failed.  Now I do, and now it works.

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G. Del Merritt                                dmerritt at intranets.com
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