Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > In article <mailman.488.1370508226.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, > Tony Finch <d...@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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
