bind timeouts

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Tue May 18 07:23:56 PDT 2004


>> RFC974 says:
>>     There is one other special case.  If the response contains an
>>     answer which is a CNAME RR, it indicates that REMOTE is actually
>>     an alias for some other domain name. The query should be repeated
>>     with the canonical domain name.
> 
> That covers the intial lookup, meaning that a CNAME pointing to an MX is
> legal.

no.  it means an MX referring to a CNAME which resolves to an A

randy



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