Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:23:52 -0700 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: fullermd@over-yonder.net Subject: Re: bind timeouts Message-ID: <16554.7288.281205.464222@ran.psg.com> References: <20040518063753.GB2038@over-yonder.net> <200405180804.i4I8477E019740@gw.catspoiler.org>
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>> 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
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