<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div>Does PowerDNS have anything built-in that would allow aliased records returned as A records? In other words:</div><div><br></div><div>$ORIGIN .<br>example.com 86400 IN CNAME cloud1.example.com.</div>example.com 86400 IN MX 10 mail.example.com.<br><div>example.com 86400 IN NS ns1.example.com.<br>example.com 86400 IN NS ns2.example.com.<br>example.com 86400 IN SOA ns1.example.com hostmaster.example.com 2020020500 28800 7200 604800 86400<br>cloud1.example.com 86400 IN A 10.0.0.1</div><div>mail.example.com 86400 IN CNAME cloud1.example.com</div>ns1.example.com 86400 IN CNAME cloud1.example.com<div><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div>ns2.example.com 86400 IN CNAME cloud1.example.com</div><br></div><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr">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?</div><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><br></div><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr">Could this perhaps be done via Lua?</div><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><br></div><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr">Given modern editors and interfaces I know it's not a major undertaking to update multiple records as IP addresses change - but still it would be nice to have the convenience of updating records to the minimum extent possible.<br></div><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr">--<br>Daniel<br></div></div></div></body></html>