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<div>------ Original Message ------</div>
<div>From: "Brian Candler" <<a href="mailto:b.candler@pobox.com">b.candler@pobox.com</a>></div>
<div>To: "Daniel Miller" <<a href="mailto:dmiller@amfes.com">dmiller@amfes.com</a>>; "PowerDNS Users" <<a href="mailto:pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com">pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com</a>></div>
<div>Sent: 2/5/2020 1:04:27 PM</div>
<div>Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] Return CNAME or other alias backend as A</div><div><br /></div>
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<div class="plain_line">On 05/02/2020 20:31, Daniel Miller via Pdns-users wrote:</div>
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<div class="plain_line">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>
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<div class="plain_line">You would be looking for ALIAS records :-)</div>
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<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/alias.html" style="">https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/alias.html</a></div>
<div class="plain_line"> </div></blockquote><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div id="x185ef5f30acc486"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I initially thought so - but per the manual, "</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The ALIAS record provides a way to have CNAME-like behaviour on the zone apex."</span></div><div id="x185ef5f30acc486"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div id="x185ef5f30acc486"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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?</span></div></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div id="x185ef5f30acc486"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>---<br />Daniel<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><blockquote type="cite" class="cite2"><div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
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