Reverse lookup from Internet only worked when using dig +trace option

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Wed Sep 24 17:48:18 UTC 2003


In article <bk82ge$2826$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>	Named does *not* follow CNAMEs when looking up addresses
>	of namesevers.

Isn't that a violation of the "be liberal in what you accept" principle?

Howerver, the OP could easily have solved the problem by making those
obsolete names into A records rather than CNAME records.

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