Re: bind timeouts

From: Randy Bush <randy_at_psg.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:23:52 -0700
>> 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
Received on Tue May 18 2004 - 05:23:56 UTC

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