About "gethostby*.getanswer" message.
Issue
- The customer experienced the following message.
May 29 14:22:23 server process: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "xxxx.yyyy.zzz IN A", got type "DNAME"
- Please tell us about the following:
- meaning of the message
- influence
- Necessity of some handles
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- glibc-2.12-1.80.el6.x86_64
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