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doc: note about DNS ANY queries / RFC 8482
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Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <[email protected]>
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tlhunter authored and BethGriggs committed Apr 17, 2019
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DNS server operators may choose not to respond to `ANY`
queries. It may be better to call individual methods like [`dns.resolve4()`][],
[`dns.resolveMx()`][], and so on. For more details, see [RFC 8482][].

## dns.resolveCname(hostname, callback)
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[`util.promisify()`]: util.html#util_util_promisify_original
[DNS error codes]: #dns_error_codes
[Implementation considerations section]: #dns_implementation_considerations
[RFC 8482]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8482
[rfc5952]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-6
[supported `getaddrinfo` flags]: #dns_supported_getaddrinfo_flags

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