Adding CNAME for the root domain issue
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Apr 27 19:44:07 UTC 2016
In article <mailman.645.1461772844.73610.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
Sam Wilson <Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> In article <mailman.633.1461768150.73610.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
> "Baird, Josh" <jbaird at follett.com> wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts on a service like Cloudfare's 'CNAME Flattening' [1]?
> >
> > [1]
> > https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cname
> > s-at-a-domains-root/
>
> <delurk>
> Does anyone else find themselves mentally yelling "apex!" whenever they
> read the word "root" in that document?
> </delurk>
I've long since stopped getting bothered by sloppy language like this,
ever since people started using "IP" as short for "IP address", or using
"class A, B, C" to refer to /8, /6, and /24 prefixes, rather than the
original address ranges.
The context always makes it clear when root == apex.
--
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA
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