Simple question about zone and CNAME

[Mike Hoskins (michoski)]

-----Original Message-----

From: Chris Thompson <cet1 at cam.ac.uk>
Date: Friday, April 5, 2013 3:10 PM
To: Bind Users Mailing List <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: Re: Simple question about zone and CNAME

>On Apr 5 2013, John Wobus wrote:
>
>>> DNAME? <runs away, gigglingŠ>
>>
>>Or SRV records.  Surely browsers are adding support
>>in the next day or two?
>
>Come on, April 1 has been over for too long for this.
>
>Incidentally, we have just been asked for an A record for cam.ac.uk to
>duplicate www.cam.ac.uk because, and I quote, "all the publicity material
>sent out by the nominator [for an award for the web site] gave the URL
>as http://cam.ac.uk/ and this has been retweeted around".

Yes, sadly I've lost that technical battle with marketing several places
now.