------ Original Message ------
From: "Brian Candler" <b.cand...@pobox.com>
To: "Daniel Miller" <dmil...@amfes.com>; "PowerDNS Users"
<pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com>
Sent: 2/5/2020 1:04:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] Return CNAME or other alias backend as A
On 05/02/2020 20:31, Daniel Miller via Pdns-users wrote:
The above domain would be invalid as CNAME's are illegal for MX and NS records.
But is there perhaps a configuration setting that would have PowerDNS
internally resolve and return the CNAMEs as the correct A records - so any
query of this authoritative server would never see CNAMEs?
You would be looking for ALIAS records :-)
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/alias.html
I initially thought so - but per the manual, "The ALIAS record provides
a way to have CNAME-like behaviour on the zone apex."
So from the manual I inferred the purpose of ALIAS was to basically
clone a zone and was not to be used for individual host records. Is it
in fact good practice with PowerDNS to have multiple occurrences of
ALIAS within a zone to define multiple hostnames?
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Daniel
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