[dns-operations] Curious use of cname

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 02:15:15PM -0400, John Wobus wrote:
> From everything I know, this is wrong 

Yep.

> and it's apparently making our
> nameservers give inconsistent results.

Doubtless.

> What nameserver allows this

Several, every one of which apparently has to re-learn this.

> and what might they be attempting to accomplish?
 
They're probably trying to send their "bare domain" (e.g. example.com)
off to a CDN using a CNAME.

Best regards,

A

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