RE: Operational experience with 3 degrees

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

> From RFC2181:
> 8<-----------------------------
> 10.1. CNAME resource records
> 
>    The DNS CNAME ("canonical name") record exists to provide the
>    canonical name associated with an alias name.  There may be only one
>    such canonical name for any one alias. 
> ----------------------------->8
> 
> I interpret this as "CNAME chains are not allowed" thus the above
> system should not work at all... apparently in some cases it works
> though.
> I wonder why this does work for A records ;)

My interpretation of the above text is that you can only have one CNAME
record for a given name; not that there can not be chains.

   Erik