From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 19 14:47:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386BF37B422; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13bVAe-000IC6-00; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:43:20 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA88217; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:43:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:43:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Sean Kelly Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'host' command with CNAMEs Message-ID: <20000919224319.E30774@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000919145349.A28511@edgemaster.zombie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000919145349.A28511@edgemaster.zombie.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Kelly wrote: > I've got two machines here, one running 4.1-STABLE (from Aug 3) and a > 5.0-CURRENT (from Aug 10) and both of them show the same issue. When > you use the 'host' command to resolve a CNAME, it will show all the A > records twice: The problem is older than that: ben@magnesium:~$ host www www.scientia.demon.co.uk is a nickname for magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk has address 192.168.91.34 magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk has address 192.168.91.34 ben@magnesium:~$ uname -rsm FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 ISTR when the problem first cropped up it was briefly mentioned, but evidently no-one could be bothered to fix it at the time. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message