[dns-operations] DNAME interoperability

Graeme Fowler graeme at graemef.net
Fri Dec 2 11:20:06 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 10:53 +0000, John Horne wrote:
> Interesting because our 2003 SP2 servers show no sign of supporting the
> DNAME record. (Accessing the DNS on the server and selecting 'other DNS
> records' shows things like MINFO, HINFO, RP etc, but no DNAME).

That's the hotfix which prevents MS DNS from bleating into the log when
encountering a DNAME record, as far as I can tell. The hotfix
description doesn't imply that DNAME becomes supported after
installation.

I would surmise that this is one of those patches which actually means
"ignorance is bliss"!

Graeme




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