Re: Cnames and "virtual name based hosting"

This is a discussion on Re: Cnames and "virtual name based hosting" within the Bind Users forums, part of the DNS and Related Forums category; On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:08:14AM +0000, fih <frhak@hotmail.com> wrote a message of ...


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Old 04-07-2004
Stephane Bortzmeyer
 
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Default Re: Cnames and "virtual name based hosting"

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:08:14AM +0000,
fih <frhak@hotmail.com> wrote
a message of 45 lines which said:

> it's bad to use Cnames because resolvers needs to do two lookups


Sometimes, the nameserver does it so the resolver needs only one
lookup.

Since it is a BIND mailing list, you can notice that BIND 8 and BIND 9
both perform this additional processing).

~ % dig +short @ns1.nic.fr A www.afnic.fr
rigolo.nic.fr.
192.134.4.20
~ % dig +short @ns2.nic.fr A www.afnic.fr
rigolo.nic.fr.
~ % dig +short @ns3.nic.fr A www.afnic.fr
rigolo.nic.fr.
192.134.4.20

(ns1 = BIND 8, ns2 = nsd, ns3 = BIND 9)

> and also using Cnames and "virtual name based hosting" togeather
> would be illegal???


This is plainly wrong.


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