* Robert Edmonds:
> I think there was already a thread on this topic recently on this list
> ("Order of CNAME and A in Authoritative Reply" from August 2015). There
> was some discussion over "adding" versus "appending" and it was pointed
> out that a lot of existing code (e.g., the BSD stub resolver) was
> written using the "add at the end" meaning.
Are there stub resolvers which actually chase the CNAME chain?
I assume it is quite common just to check the QNAME, and then extract
A/AAAA records from the answer section without matching their owner
names (but potentially recording their owner name as the “canonical
name” of the host, even though that's rarely useful these days).
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