[Pdns-users] CNAME records are not returned in answer section by default

[Walery Studennikov]

When I ask A record for domain and A record dowsn't exists, but CNAME
record exists instead, I want pdns to return CNAME records and
status:NOERROR, but now it doesn't.

For example:
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$ dig @ns1.reg.ru mail.poxyist.ru

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> @ns1.reg.ru mail.poxyist.ru
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 25877
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.poxyist.ru.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.poxyist.ru.	43200	IN	CNAME	ghs.google.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.			43200	IN	SOA	ns1.reg.ru. hostmaster.ns1.reg.ru. 1254931273 7200
3600 604800 21600
==============================

It should return NOERROR, but it returns NXDOMAIN.

In another server with another configuration (skip-cname=yes) the
situation is another:

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$ dig @oldns1.reg.ru mail.poxyist.ru

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> @oldns1.reg.ru mail.poxyist.ru
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24929
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.poxyist.ru.		IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
poxyist.ru.		43200	IN	SOA	ns1.reg.ru. hostmaster.ns1.reg.ru.
1265795783 14400 3600 604800 21600
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It returns status:NOERROR but it doesn't return CNAME record in answer section.

But I want both: status:NOERROR and CNAME record in answer section.
How to achieve this?

-- 
Walery Studennikov
CTO of Domain Name Registrar REG.RU
http://www.reg.ru/
+7 495 580-11-11 int. 501