CNAME without recursion

[Barry Margolin]

In article <gg66ki$j0m$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Pavel Urban <pupu at pupu.cz> 
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have two local domains on our 9.3.4 BIND. One domain has CNAME record 
> pointing to the record in the second one. The server has recursion disabled.
> 
> What is an expected behavior? I can see this:
> 
> www.dom1.cz ns.xxx.cz
> Using domain server:
> Name: ns.xxx.cz
> Address: 80.188.xx.xxx#53
> Aliases:
> 
> Host www.dom1.cz not found: 5(REFUSED)
> 
> Do I have to have recursion enabled to resolve such CNAMEs?

You got an error because you sent a recursive query with nslookup.

Caching nameservers send their queries without requesting recursion, so 
your server will reply with the CNAME record, and then the client 
nameserver will resolve the CNAME by itself.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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