Synthesized CNAME from NXDOMAIN

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1441.1380841588.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Casey Deccio <casey at deccio.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> 
> > You are why we can't have nice things :P
> >
> > We had enough Sitewinders. With DNSSEC on the endnode, your lies won't
> > be believed anway. What you are trying is wrong, bad and broken.
> >
> >
> This might be a fair statement in the right context.  But it was taken out
> of context--because I really didn't provide any.  Not that I need to
> justify my question, but since you brought it up, what I am looking to do
> is decrease the risk of DNS resolution failures resulting from a namespace
> transition by creating a fallback from the old to the new namespace.  For
> some definite period of time after the change, an NXDOMAIN in the old
> namespace would result in a synthesized CNAME pointing to the same name in
> the new namespace.  Anyway, there might not be an easy way to to do it, and
> we might just have to lose our safety net, but I wanted to ask users on the
> list if there's some obscure configuration that might be helpful.

Isn't this what DNAME is for?

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA