named-checkzone 9.4.1-P1 appears to treat "out of zone" as "CNAME (illegal)"

Niall O'Reilly Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie
Wed Feb 20 20:52:04 UTC 2008


On 31 Oct 2007, at 22:56, Mark Andrews wrote:

> getaddrinfo() returned a different name in ai_canonname to
> relay.esat.net when the address of relay.esat.net was looked
> up.
>
> I'll make named-checkzone report the name returned.

	Two rather late observations.

	1. It seems that 9.4.2 was through the gate before this could
	   be done.

	2. This is the wrong approach.  It is perverse to infer, and
	   even worse to report in a diagnostic message, the presence
	   of a CNAME RR which manifestly does not exist.




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