I can't resolve one domain: nhs.uk

[Andrew Benton]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:01:00 +0100
Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 17/06/11 12:10, Andrew Benton wrote:
> >
> > And it works well for every domain on the internet. Except for
> > www.nhs.uk - I can't resolve nhs.uk
> 
> www.nhs.uk is, currently, a CNAME to
> www.prod.nhs.uk.akadns.net
> 
> You might be suffering from the bind 9.8 CNAME issue. See the recent, 
> repeated discussions in the archives, including a link to a quick 
> one-line patch you can apply to see if it fixes it.

Do you mean this patch?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/dns/bind98/files/patch-bin__named__query.c?rev=1.1

I've just tried it and it made no difference. I'm not convinced of this
CNAME hypothesis. Could you point me towards the threads where it is
discussed? I'm new here.

Andy