Problem resolving CNAME in BIND 9.8.0 and 9.8.0-P2

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Jun 10 15:36:40 UTC 2011


On 10/06/11 15:50, Per-Olof Axelsson wrote:
> When I run the following dig command below I sometimes get different
> answers, generally 20-30 minutes after restarting BIND. It doesn't

This might be the problem resolving CNAMEs that was discussed on the 
list recently:

https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2011-May/thread.html#83714

"Bind 9.8.0 intermittent problem with non-recursive responses"

It was fixed in 9.8.1, or you can apply the patch that the FreeBSD guys 
have:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/dns/bind98/files/patch-bin__named__query.c?rev=1.1



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