Hello, I'm seeing an oddity when doing DNS lookups for www.google.com from our London datacenter, and I'm curious if other people are seeing the same behavior. It appears that when we ask for www.google.com. we sometimes get an answer that only contains records for www-anycast.google.com., which our resolver ignores as they don't match the query. As seen with dig: ``` # dig @ns1.google.com. www.google.com. aaaa ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> @ns1.google.com. www.google.com. aaaa ; (2 servers found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42641 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.google.com. IN AAAA ;; ANSWER SECTION: www-anycast.google.com. 300 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:34::75 www-anycast.google.com. 300 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:38::75 www-anycast.google.com. 300 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:36::75 www-anycast.google.com. 300 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:32::75 ;; Query time: 7 msec ;; SERVER: 216.239.32.10#53(216.239.32.10) ;; WHEN: Fri Sep 06 19:05:32 UTC 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 167 ``` So far I've observed this with A and AAAA queries. It's my understanding that without a CNAME record in the answer, the resolver is doing the right thing by ignoring the answer, as there's no linkage between www and www-anycast. Is this broken, or is this just some weird DNS trick I've not come across before? -- Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net>