Resolving CNAMEs when pointing to another domain

[G. Del Merritt]

At 04:12 PM 5/8/00 +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
>But this shouldn't cause a problem for normal use of your domain.
>Resolvers should point to caching nameservers, which will do the
>appropriate iteration that your CNAME records require.

Urk.  My bad.  I wasn't looking for aliases (CNAME RRs) when a query for an 
A RR failed.

Section 5.2.2 of RFC 1034 shed sufficient light on this for me to resolve 
my problem.  As it were.  Thanks to Barry and Eric for their comments as well.

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