any requests

[Tony Finch]

Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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?

The client is a stub resolver, the server is a recursive resolver. The
recursive server will either serve the CNAME chain from cache or chase it
safely if necessary,

Tony.
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