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From: Scot Elliott <scot@london.sparza.com>
To: Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov>
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Subject: Re: 'host' command with CNAMEs
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I think this is a bug in that version of Bind as it also happens on my
Solaris machine here on which I compiled up bind v8.2.2 recently...


Scot


On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tim Zingelman wrote:

> > As I recall, 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:
> > > 
> > > (7) smkelly@edgemaster:~$ host www.microsoft.com
> > > www.microsoft.com is a nickname for microsoft.com
> > > microsoft.com has address 207.46.130.45
> > > microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.218
> > > microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.219
> > > microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.218
> > > microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.219
> > > microsoft.com has address 207.46.130.45
> 
> It is more complicated than that... the bug only shows up if you specify
> an alias name...
> 
> $ host releng4.freebsd.org
> releng4.freebsd.org is a nickname for usw3.FreeBSD.org
> usw3.FreeBSD.org has address 209.180.6.227
> usw3.FreeBSD.org has address 209.180.6.227
> $
> $ host usw3.freebsd.org
> usw3.freebsd.org has address 209.180.6.227
> $
> 
>   - Tim
> 
> 
> 
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