On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

>
>       To address this potential confusion, it is helpful to distinguish
>       between two meanings:
>
>       QNAME (original)  The name actually sent in the Question
>          Section in the orignal query, which is always echoed in the
>          (final) reply in the Question Section when the QR bit is set to
>          1.
>
>       QNAME (effective)  The name actually resolved, which is either the
>          name actually queried or else the last name in a CNAME chain as
>          defined in [RFC2308].
>
> I'm certainly not wedded to these two names.
>


These two terms sound reasonable to me.

-- 
Shumon Huque
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