CNAME hack???

[Mark Andrews]

> --- 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=ofbOawLJZkCiFGPSnDLIt
> MKfroU&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.

	It's also known as "Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation" and
	"RFC 2317 style delegation".

	Mark
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