Hector Santos <hsan...@isdg.net> wrote:
>
> Not expecting this in my DNS resolver code, I modified the resolver to take
> the CNAMEs into account and return the host names instead.  Was this the
> correct thing to do, thus providing the same results regardless of the query
> location?

Yes.

You should also make sure your response parser isn't tripped up by DNAME
records (you can safely skip them).

See also https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fanf-dnsop-rfc2317bis which
sadly ran out of steam and stalled...

Tony.
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