The ultimate goal is to provide an ANAME like service, which is to allow CNAME like behavior for root zone queries. ANAMES are not an RFC standard so I may be looking at this all wrong but since I'm testing I want to make sure I'm using the correct syntax and getting a proper return value. Why? This is needed to host Domains using Amazon Web Services.
Since I'm not getting the same returned values as I would when querying a Bind CNAME I'm assuming i'm either using the CNAME method incorrectly or i'm hitting a bug as you suggested. I'm running version 11.1 HF4, although, i'm planning an upgrade to 11.2 in early December.
What i'm uncertain about is if I can even return a CNAME in response to a root zone query which is why i'm testing in a lab. If this is not possible I may need to use a combination of a perl script and iFile.
BTW, at this point i'm testing with host names NOT root zones. I figured I need to get a valid reply before testing with root zones.