Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.

RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #594192 +++

The problem is a DNAME is sometimes returned to gethostby*.getanswer. In some cases this leads to a large amount of log messages such as:

 ping: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "img.muresinfo.ro.nyud.net IN A", got type "DNAME"

The code in question seems to be 

resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c

if (type != qtype) {
syslog(LOG_NOTICE|LOG_AUTH,
      "gethostby*.getanswer: asked for \"%s %s %s\", got type \"%s\"",
      qname, p_class(C_IN), p_type(qtype),
      p_type(type));
cp += n;
continue; /* XXX - had_error++ ? */
}

Possible ways to eliminate this:
-message should only occur if the answer doesn't also contain a CNAME. If a CNAME is returned, the message is informational and could be considered LOG_INFO. However, I'm not sure that would reduce the amount of output for some users.

-don't produce the message on DNAME

--- Additional comment from ebachalo on 2011-01-26 12:27:59 EST ---

This change did not go upstream. I am closing this request for RHEL 4.9.  If/When a change is made in upstream glibc a request to backport to previous RHELs may be requested.

Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 660265 ***