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From: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DNS goofups galore...
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:43:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010208194332.Y23514@sventech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95ulrk$aik$1@forge.intermeta.de> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102081346001.16513-100000@innerfire.net> <95v8am$k6o$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20010208183232.A1642@alcove.wittsend.com> <3A833005.5C8E0D81@transmeta.com> <20010208185449.B1642@alcove.wittsend.com> <3A83335A.A5764CD7@transmeta.com> <20010208190823.B1640@alcove.wittsend.com> <3A8335BB.F3166F1@transmeta.com> <20010208193120.C1640@alcove.wittsend.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010208193120.C1640@alcove.wittsend.com>; from Michael H. Warfield on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:31:20PM -0500

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001, Michael H. Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com> wrote:
> 	But, wait a minute.  CNAME -> CNAME is a "must not".  MX -> CNAME
> is a "should not".  The "should not" leaves it to be implimentation
> dependent and not an outright ban.  Sooo...

Actually, I had this conversation recently. I checked a variety of
places and I couldn't find an RFC that said CNAME -> CNAME is a "must
not". In fact I found this snippet in rfc1912 which seems to imply that
it is legal:

   Also, having chained records such as CNAMEs pointing to CNAMEs may
   make administration issues easier, but is known to tickle bugs in
   some resolvers that fail to check loops correctly.  As a result some
   hosts may not be able to resolve such names.

*shrug*

JE

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-09  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-08 13:06 DNS goofups galore Matti Aarnio
2001-02-08 13:35 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-02-08 17:43 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-08 21:46   ` Gerhard Mack
2001-02-08 22:58     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-08 23:32       ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-08 23:47         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-08 23:54           ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-09  0:01             ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-09  0:08               ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-09  0:11                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-09  0:31                   ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-09  0:43                     ` Johannes Erdfelt [this message]
2001-02-12 12:55               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-12 19:19                 ` James Antill
2001-02-13 19:52                   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-20 23:45                     ` James Antill
2001-02-09  7:04       ` Jan Gyselinck
2001-02-12 12:57         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-12 20:20           ` Kai Henningsen
2001-02-13 20:39             ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
     [not found] <linux.kernel.20010208193120.C1640@alcove.wittsend.com>
2001-02-09  1:50 ` Aaron Denney
2001-02-09  3:05   ` Michael H. Warfield

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