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What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really
- hoppla 4y agoPlayed a bit around with this a few years back. Made an endless chain of CNAMEs to see how resolvers would handle it. Turned that nothing (bad) happened as the resolvers gave up after a while
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- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoWonder what metric(s) make them decide to quit?
- eerikkivistik 4y agoEither a hard limit on the number of jumps, or Floyd's Tortoise and Hare Algorithm.
- taskforcegemini 4y agoI would have thought there is some form of loop detection, similar how mailservers ckeck for it in email forwarding or autoresponding
- andrewstuart 4y agoDisappointing. I would have thought that doing this would result in them spinning around each other at the speed of light and then like two black holes colliding, sending an explosive shockwave through the Internet. Sorry to hear that not much happens. Nothing cool ever works out the way you hope it might.
- sirl1on 4y agoWe would have found a renewable and clean energy source :(
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- JeanMarcS 4y agoDon't forget to add a dot at the end of the line to make it work. www.example.com CNAME exemple.com.
- jasonrojas 4y agocomments in bind start with ;