On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Leen Besselink <l...@consolejunkie.net>wrote:

> On 03/31/2011 09:18 AM, Anthony Eden wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Stefan Schmidt <zaph...@zaphods.net
> > <mailto:zaph...@zaphods.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Anthony,
> >
> >     On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Anthony Eden
> >     <anthonye...@gmail.com <mailto:anthonye...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         When I point a CNAME record to a URL forwarding record
> >         PowerDNS returns a SERVFAIL for the CNAME query when I go
> >         through a resolver. If I dig directly against the
> >         authoritative server it works just fine. Any suggestions on
> >         how I can fix this, other than just replacing the CNAME with
> >         another URL
> >
>
> Actually, if you use dig and pay really close attention you should see
> you request www.wemakednssimple.com <http://www.sunnybliss.com>
>
> But it returns wemakednssimple.com. without the www. Which is wrong. A
> recursor will recognise this and just ignore that part of the answer
> (there is nothing else in the answer so you get nothing).
>
> I don't know what the cause is, but this is the result and why it
> doesn't work.


I wonder if setting skip-cname to yes would solve the problem and if so,
what are the implications of doing so?

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden

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