e: BIND 9.6 Flaw - CNAME vs. A Record in MX Records are NOT "Illegal"

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> > You say, "both the A record and the CNAME record are returned."
> > We know that BIND does this.

On 27.01.09 19:33, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> No, not all BIND versions do this. I'm running BIND 9.5, and when
> asking about the MX for nullmx.domainmanager.com I'm getting 
> 
> Answer:		nullmx.domainmanager.com.  CNAME  mta.dewile.net.
> Authority:	dewile.net.  SOA  ...
> 
> Even if my BIND 9.5 name server has the A record for mta.dewile.net
> in the cache, it is not returned.

What was te question? If it was "any" or "cname", the bind won't return
that. If the question was "A", it should be returned, unless you have
allow-recursion or allow-query-cache turned off

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