Simple question about zone and CNAME

[Doug Barton]

On 04/08/2013 06:42 AM, Sam Wilson wrote:
> In article <mailman.49.1365191296.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
>   WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> And then there's theses folks:
>>
>> http://no-www.org/
>
> Is co-opting high-level name space for a single protocol a modern-day
> landgrab?

Is holding on to the antiquated notion that every protocol needs a 
unique hostname charmingly anachronistic, or just plain obstructionist? 
(See what I did there?)

For bonus points, list the number of services running on your typical 
server configuration, and then tell us how many of them have their own 
hostnames. Start with dns, ssh, and ntp. Then describe how you 
differentiate your SSL web service from your plain text version. Bonus 
points if you're running ipp, nfs, or kerberos with their own unique 
hostnames on the same system.

The point being that the world moved on, and putting websites on 
hostnames that don't start with www. is the common case now. Can we save 
our energy for something more productive?

Doug