Allow Multiple-Cnames in BIND 9

[Bill Manning]

% > There is no workaround. You have to fix your zone files so that they
% > are legal. As they should have been set up. You might find that
% > replacing the CNAMEs with A records will be a workable kludge.

	bind 9 encourages consistant practice, sometimes w/o anything
	other than "it ought to work this way".  The core specs are
	often vauge, which leads to commentary & clarifications.

% Well, it's not me. It's a to-be unamed company that we work with
% extensively. They have a set up that directly violates the RFC's and we
% have to make do with it. The replacing CNAME with A record solution
% doesn't work because of the sheer quantity of the entries involved. Most
% OS's will truncate the answers and cause it not to work.
% 
% Unfortunately this client insists on load-balancing via DNS despite my
% arguments, best wishes, and typical practices. 

	Potentially a good thing, Diversity is desirable.

% So you're telling me there is no way around this? 

	What I think you are hearing is that BIND 9 won't
	let you do what you have been doing for years and works.
	You might get satisfaction from the current BIND 8 
	code.

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% Justin M. Wilson
% justin at justin.net
% justin.wilson at qwest.com
% 


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--bill