Re: difference in dnscache installs

richard lucassen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Organization XAQ Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:45:29 -0800
Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> > When querying these names manually using dnsq, I run into a CNAME
> > hell. I think those dnscache instances query more than the limited
> > 4 or 8 queries (IIRC and AFAIUI).
> 
> dnscache handles chains of up to 16 CNAME records.

ok, thnx

> > Does anyone know how to set this limit a little bit higher? I think
> > it's hardcoded in dnscache, I can't remember there is a environment
> > setting for this.
> 
> QUERY_MAXALIAS in query.h.

The default of 16 should be enough I think

What is the effect of increasing QUERY_MAXLEVEL?

R.

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