any requests

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Jun 6 08:59:42 UTC 2013


In article <mailman.488.1370508226.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:

> The ANY query does not trigger alias processing, so if there is a CNAME
> chain you have to follow it yourself. This is a waste because if you made
> an MX query in the first place the server would have given you the whole
> chain without further queries.

Unless the links in the CNAME chain are in the same bailiwick, isn't the 
client going to ignore them and follow them itself, to avoid cache 
poisoning?

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA


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