From: Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at domain tcd.ie)
Date: Thu 11 Apr 2002 - 14:27:34 IST
On Thursday 11 April 2002 15:07, you wrote:
> Yes, that's what I remember it being, now that it's mentioned. But is that
> true even when x.y.com is a cname to z.y.com. If the DNS server finds that
> x.y.com is a CNAME for z.y.com does it return z.y.com or does it return the
> IP ? Returning z.y.com would seem REALLY dumb.
That's what it does. It the server knows about the A record, it might return
that as well. It's not the only aspect of DNS that's dumb. I want a way to
invalidate the caches for records that get updated :)
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