>DNSMadeEasy calls this an "ANAME" record, internally they just lookup >the destination's IP and cache it, updating it as needed. > >It works, but it would be nice if this could be done in DNS. Sadly, it >can't, and probably won't in our lifetimes.
I do a similar thing in my DNS crudware, a pseudo-entry in the zone, every time the background update script runs, it does A and AAAA lookups and puts the results in the real zone, bumping the SOA serial if the result changed since last time. It's a crock, but one that we all seem to want. I suppose we could invent something like an AAAAANAME (that's A and AAAA name), that worked like a restricted CNAME and does an indirect lookup only for A or AAAA requests. Or overimplement it with a bitmap of the RR types to indirect for. R's, John _______________________________________________ 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