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> Looks like "mail.bullets.net" points to a chain of four CNAMEs. As
> you can see, the last name does resolve properly (although you'll have
> to switch the type back to "A" (address) records in NSLOOKUP to get
> it). Executing 'host mail.bullets.net' gives:
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> I'm running Red Hat Linux/Alpha 5.2 on a DEC AlphaStation 200 (kernel
> 2.1.131ac2). I have "bind-utils-8.1.2-5" installed.
>
> I don't think gethostbyname(3) can handle this many CNAMEs. I don't
> think it is legal for a CNAME to point to another CNAME, though.
A CNAME *must not* point to a CNAME. (So tells DNS standard.)
The target for CNAME must be A/AAAA, and/or MX.
Some MTAs allow recursion on CNAME resolution, but
they limit it at about 2-3 recursions.
(Once I saw a case of
A CNAME C
C CNAME B
B CNAME C
and I noticed it after my MTA had crashed, when it
ran over the stack in the recursion loop..)
> But anyway, things should work right, now, because it seems that DNS
> has been updated. "mail.bullet.net" is now a CNAME for "bullet.net",
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> Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
/Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
