[Pdns-users]

[bert hubert]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:23:13AM -0600, Ryan Baldwin wrote:

> Hi everybody.  We're getting some funny behavior with CNAME records that
> have a specific content.  We have multiple domains and for a number of
> these domains, we're attempting to point a CNAME to
> webmail.secureserver.net.  These CNAME's fail fail with this error:
> "Detected a CNAME loop involving webmail.secureserver.net, sending
> SERVFAIL"<?xm l:namespace prefix = o ns =
> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

??? what horrible software do you mail with that mangles your
messages so badly.

> Now, we've tried pointing these CNAME records someplace else and it works
> fine, however whenever we try to point them to webmail.secreserver.net it
> fails.  The really odd thing here is that Webmail.secureserver.net is a
> host record, not a CNAME, so no CNAME loop should exist.  We tested this
> out also on MS DNS on Win2K and MS DNS handles this record without a
> problem.  As we stated before, this is the only CNAME record that doesn't
> work -- in all other cases, PDNS handles the CNAME records just fine.

I need way more data. Can you show me the zone that causes the problem?

> Does anybody have any suggestions or insight?  We're using 2.9.10 on Win2K
> Server backing off ODBC/SQL2K.  All service paks for Win2k Server and
> SQL2K are installed.

Does 2.9.10 work on Win2k? Wow. 


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