CNAME hack???

jmc jmc at cosimano.us
Fri Aug 22 13:06:40 UTC 2008


--- Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) [Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:03:44PM +0800]: --- 
> 
> I was reading "Linux Administration Handbook" to learn about BIND 9. It 
> has a section on configuring BIND 9 for IP addresses that uses a CIDR 
> netmask of "/26". The book called it "CNAME hack".
> 
> http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GB_O89fnz_sC&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=bind+cname+hack+byte+boundary&source=web&ots=wHXdK1DTkn&sig=ofbOawLJZkCiFGPSnDLItMKfroU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
> 
> IS there an official name for this trick?

i have always known this as ``the CNAME hack'', as that's exactly what
it is.


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