All about CNAME record
G. Del Merritt
dmerritt at intranets.com
Wed Jun 7 16:53:09 UTC 2000
At 01:21 AM 6/7/00 +0000, agentnnn at my-deja.com wrote:
>Sorry for replying to old posts...so what reasons would someone want to
>use a CNAME? I can only think of a few mail issues but I may not even
>be right about that. Is it for organization puposes?
Nowadays it's common to want to bundle services that look like you provide
them even when you don't. CNAME's are a convenient way to allow that to
happen, since you more than likely don't have administrative rights over
the actual providers' namespace. So you point to it via CNAME.
CNAMEs within a zone of control seem less useful in general. Mapping PTR
records sanely is one obvious problem.
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