CNAME Issue - Whether to use CNAME-data or Response-Flag

[Doug Barton]

When I try to resolve mail.wilmot.me.uk against my local resolver (which
happens to be BIND 9.6.2-P1 atm) I get the expected result:

host mail.wilmot.me.uk
mail.wilmot.me.uk is an alias for wilmot.me.uk.mail.aaisp.net.uk.
wilmot.me.uk.mail.aaisp.net.uk has address 81.187.30.19
wilmot.me.uk.mail.aaisp.net.uk has IPv6 address
2001:8b0:0:30:230:48ff:fedb:25dc

Looking at the response from the local resolver with dig confirms that
it is as expected.

Querying your authoritative server also produces the expected result:

; <<>> DiG 9.6.2-P1 <<>> @primary-dns.co.uk mail.wilmot.me.uk a
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 11113
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.wilmot.me.uk.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.wilmot.me.uk.	3600	IN	CNAME	wilmot.me.uk.mail.aaisp.net.uk.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mail.aaisp.net.uk.	600	IN	SOA	auth.primary-dns.co.uk. a.k.gg. 2010030105
10800 3600 1209600 600

;; Query time: 174 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:8b0:0:30::51bb:1e29#53(2001:8b0:0:30::51bb:1e29)
;; WHEN: Fri Apr  9 12:42:04 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 139

So I'm not sure exactly what problem you're reporting.


hth,

Doug

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