[17552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beyond DNS...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Vandry)
Thu Jun 4 17:42:32 1998
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:34:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
To: Chris Cappuccio <chris@empnet.com>
Cc: Jonathan Bradshaw <jonathan@NrgUp.Com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 14:26:41 EDT."
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> Multiple CNAMEs are not supported by all DNS servers and are in fact "turned
> off" by default in BIND 8. Multiple CNAMEs violates DNS protocol-
I took a closer look, and it seems it actually may not be violating
the protocol because though Dean has specified two, the server only
ever returns one in response to a single query.
-Phil
