The RFC or the reason why you can not create CNAME record for t he "root record"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c9le43$78p$1 at sf1.isc.org>, phil-news-nospam at ipal.net wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:09:35 -0400 David Botham <DBotham at optimussolutions.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> |> So how do we fix this?  I think a hack/patch is the only way.  But I see
> |> two different ways to approach that.  Which one is likely to work in 
> | most
> |> cases?
> | 
> | "This" is not broken and therefore cannot be fixed.  Change your mind 
> | instead.
> 
> Maybe we should just take CNAME out of the RFC altogether.  I frequently
> see many recommendations to NOT use it.  And the one place where it would
> be useful, it doesn't work

This is hardly the "one place" where CNAME would be useful.  I expect 
that for the cases you're concerned with, you also make use of it for 
the www.<domain> name.  The only problem you're encountering is that you 
can't implement the <domain> mapping using the same technique as you use 
for www.<domain>.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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