[dns-operations] DNAME interoperability

[John Horne]

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 09:52 +0100, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> John Horne (john.horne) writes:
> > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:36 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> > > Possibly of interest to this list, I've posted an article on my blog
> > > describing a couple of DNAME interoperability problems that we have
> > > encountered. Has anyone else seen anything similar?
> > > 
> > > http://fanf.livejournal.com/116744.html
> > > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > A few years ago we used the DNAME record for our old short-name of
> > 'plym.ac.uk' pointing to the long-name of 'plymouth.ac.uk'. However, we
> > found that Microsoft 2003 DNS servers did not recognise DNAME, so we had
> > to abandon that. A quick check indicates that 2008 MS DNS does now
> > support DNAME.
> 
> 	Many organizations still don't run 2008 DNS. When you say "Microsoft 2003
> 	DNS servers", do you mean "recursive/caching servers don't understand the
> 	DNAME RRtype", or "authoritative servers don't support/offer the DNAME
> 	RRtype [as master or slave]", or both ?
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 	Phil
> 
Both.


John.

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