---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:52:10 +0000
>On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: >> >> getaddrinfo() is reporting that aspmx.l.google.com's cannonical >> name is mail-yx0-f102.google.com. Somewhere in the resolution path >> aspmx.l.google.com is being treated as a alias for >> mail-yx0-f102.google.com. In the DNS this is done using a CNAME. > >That's the kind of name you get if you do a reverse lookup on an IP >address returned by a lookup of aspmx.l.google.com, e.g. > > $ dig +short -x $(dig +short aspmx.l.google.com) > mail-ew0-f49.google.com. > >I'm not sure why getaddrinfo() would be doing a reverse lookup to >canonicalize a name. My test machines (Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux) don't. ok, the google hits I saw for that error msg also referred to getaddrinfo(), so I guess it's specific to that machine or its setup, but it's redhat enterprise, nothing special or out of date. I'm moving DNS to vmware/freebsd anyway. thanks, Len _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
