Re: [DNSOP] Where in a CNAME chain is the QNAME?

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 29 September 2016 05:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Where in a CNAME chain is the QNAME?
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:33:39PM +0100,
 Ólafur Guðmundsson <olafur@cloudflare.com> wrote 
 a message of 148 lines which said:

> The RCODE applies to the RRSET pointed to by the last CNAME in answer
> section (or the missing one).

This specific case was settled in RFC 6604 and I did not intend to
reopen it. My problem was with the definition of QNAME, not with the
proper rcode for a chain of CNAME.