[Pdns-users] PowerDNS and CNAMEs

Aki Tuomi cmouse at cmouse.fi
Fri Jul 21 12:07:00 UTC 2017



On 21.07.2017 15:04, Rune Sørensen wrote:
> Hey gurus.
>
> I have a strange issue with CNAME records that I hope you can help me
> solve, or at least clarify why it is like this.
>
> I have a CNAME, service.my-domain.com <http://service.my-domain.com>,
> pointing to host.other-domain.com <http://host.other-domain.com>.
> Now, if the A record for host.other-domain.com
> <http://host.other-domain.com> is managed by my PowerDNS, this works fine.
> If, on the other hand, host.other-domain.com
> <http://host.other-domain.com> is hosted by third party, the recursor
> functionality of PowerDNS seems strange. In stead of trying to resolve
> host.other-domain.com <http://host.other-domain.com> on the upstream
> server, it tries to resolve the original request, i.e.
> service.my-domain.com <http://service.my-domain.com>.
>
> Is this expected behaviour? Or have I botched my configuration somehow?
>
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Can you send some dig outputs?

Aki
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