[MaraDNS list] CNAME chaining

[Sebastiano Pilla]

wc-tmp at useunix.net wrote:
> We're running Deadwood 3.2.01 and I've got users complaining that they
> cannot resolve www.spireon.com.

...

> I've seen that many recommend against CNAME chaining, while bad practice
> it doesn't appear to violate the RFC, so I think Dw should handle this.
> Can anyone else test this resolution and see if they experience the same
> problem?

Using Deadwood 3.2.03, it worked for me:

[admin at picard ~]$ dig @192.168.88.21 www.spireon.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.4 <<>> @192.168.88.21 www.spireon.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37809
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.spireon.com.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.spireon.com.        60      IN      CNAME   global.spireon.com.
global.spireon.com.     60      IN      CNAME   marketing-elb-spireon1-290371133.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
marketing-elb-spireon1-290371133.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com. 60 IN A 23.23.215.69

;; Query time: 845 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.88.21#53(192.168.88.21)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun  5 21:05:47 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 141