reopen 397459 retitle 397459 net backend cannot handle multiple CNAME levels thanks
also sprach Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.11.07.1803 +0100]: > > If I use a CNAME DNS name in net.conf, the scanner is not found. If > > i use an A record name, it works. It would be nice if CNAMEs also > > worked. > > Works here (even to an A record in another domain). > > Please check your (DNS) config. Uh, the correct way to handle this would be to tag the bug unreproducible. Also, please don't assume I file bugs about DNS problems without having checked my DNS stuff. Anyway, the problem is multiple CNAME levels, so if a CNAME points to another CNAME: piper:~# host scanner scanner.oerlikon.madduck.net CNAME sane.oerlikon.madduck.net sane.oerlikon.madduck.net CNAME wall.oerlikon.madduck.net wall.oerlikon.madduck.net A 192.168.14.1 Either of 'wall' or 'sane' work. If I try to use 'scanner', it does not work. Adam D. Barratt says this is 'legal but not recommended. RFC1034 says: "Of course, by the robustness principle, domain software should not fail when presented with CNAME chains or loops; CNAME chains should be followed and CNAME loops signalled as an error." and I don't believe 2181 changes that (10.2 says that if a PTR yields a CNAME then that CNAME should not yield another CNAME)' Thanks, -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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