On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:04:50PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:51:13PM -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: > > I'm curious if there's a setting to tell powerdns not to be helpful and > > return the dereferenced CNAME. > > > > That is, if I look up a given record and it's a CNAME that then points to > > an A record, don't try to then *also* return a lookup of the A record along > > with the CNAME. > > > > The reasons for why it'd happen in our setup are annoying and I don't want > > to go into it :) > > > > I've tried setting out-of-zone-additional-processing to 'no' but that > > doesn't seem to change anything. > > > > It doesn't to break anything (and presumably a resolver that paid attention > > to these records would be subject to cache poisoning). But it's kind of > > weird and could be confusing to people looking at manual lookups. > > Hi Mark, > > I think you will find that a lot of software will work quite poorly if > you do this. If you are performing a manual lookup, just ask for the > CNAME type in the lookup and that is what you will get. > > Regards, > Ken >
It will be deferenced if - you asked for something else than cname - you had recursion desired (use +norec) - the server has recursor setting defined - or has local answer Aki _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
