[Pdns-users] Re: Recursive behaviour, and slaving.

[Chris Murton]

Stephane,

Well I would do that (that's the desired option), but we host a lot of 
CNAMEs and no amount of skip-cname tweaking seems to allow us to have 
working zones.

Although PowerDNS returns the literal CNAME, it appears a lot of 
nameservers don't like to do two queries - a lot of the domains hosted 
on the server disappeared off the earth when it didn't return a 
recursive lookup for the CNAME to accompany it.

Thanks,
Chris.

> One of our registrars had a similar (it seems) problem. They disabled
> recursion for the outside world so at least the Internet got proper
> replies :-)
> 
> What bothered me is that PowerDNS queries the recursor even if it's
> authoritative for the zone. Querying a A record prompted an
> authoritative reply, querying an (unexisting) AAAA record went to the
> recursor :-(


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