Comment 5 for bug 1538812

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James Page (james-page) wrote :

"What if the other node *is* in DNS, but is a CNAME?"

The way that query is done means that a CNAME record gets resolved down into an underlying A record automatically.

MAAS used to structure dns in this way, with the actual hostname being a CNAME that pointed to an auto-generated A record.