Follow-up: request storms from Windows

[Ian Watts]

On 16 Nov 2001, Will Yardley wrote:

> > Okay, it turns out that this problem arises when the AD servers do a
> > lookup for an IP address where the ARPA zone has a CNAME for an NS
> > record.
> 
> well that's the problem; an NS record can't point to a CNAME.


Of course.  But it shouldn't cause the server to dive into a lookup loop,
generating the same query over and over again as fast as it can.

Is that not a bug?


-- Ian