[Pdns-users] CNAME recursion

[Radek Hladik]

bert hubert wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:20:30PM +0200, Radek Hladik wrote:
> 
> 
>>only for example.com). If the option skip-cname is set to yes, pdns returns
> 
> 
> Never ever turn that feature on unless you are 100% sure you have no CNAMES
> in your database - it breaks the dns specification then.
> 
> 
>>'www.example.com is cname for www.example2.com'. But if I turn 
>>skip-cname off pdns returns 'non-exist'. I've found that pdns tries to 
>>found www.example2.com in it's backends but doesn't try to use recursor 
>>for it. If I ask for www.example2.com directly then everything is ok. (I 
>>have recursion allowed).
> 
> 
> If you ask a recursing question and it has a CNAME that points to outside
> your database, it should hand the question over to the recursing backend.
> 
> But only if it points to something outside your database!

> 
> Regards,
> 
> bert


Thanks to all. I've recompiled the daemon and recreated the config file 
from scratch and it's working now. With 'skip-cname off' it resolves 
cname target as supposed to.

Radek Hladik