CNAME hack???

[Barry Margolin]

In article <g8mg7p$12i$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:

> > --- 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=bin
> > > d
> > +cname+hack+byte+boundary&source=web&ots=wHXdK1DTkn&sig=ofbOawLJZkCiFGPSnDLI
> > t
> > 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".

And if you want to find a good description of it, I think the former is 
the name of the section in the DNS&BIND book.

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