[dns-operations] Curious use of cname

[Colm MacCárthaigh]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:
> the now-common CDN trick of inventing a nonstandard "ALIAS" record or
> similar, that causes the authority server to recurse for any qtype
> that's not actually present in the zone, and to report that recursive
> data as authoritative, does not cause any compliant initiator to react
> in any way that's undesirable.

Just to be clear; this is not what Route 53 does (which is what
triggered the sub-thread). Route53's ALIAS targets may only be RRSets
that Route53 is also authoritative for.

-- 
Colm