[6bone] Fwd: BCP 80, RFC 3681 on Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA

[dr at cluenet.de (Daniel Roesen)]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:36:41PM +0100, Pim van Pelt wrote:
> $Clueless-OS (RedHat)
[...]
> The resolver does not understand DNAME and (bug!) skips the whole
> query alltogether returning error to the requesting program.
> 
> Conclusions:
> * If you use DNAME, you are creating a potentially harmful situation for 
>   any children you have that you are also slaving for. This is not the
>   fault of DNAME, nor bind. Blame the broken DNS implementation (of which
>   there's bound to be plenty around!)

Red Hat Linux uses the glibc, which uses the BIND 8 stub resolver.
So the blame might be with the BIND 8 stub resolver, not "$Clueless-OS
(RedHat)".


Regards,
Daniel