On Saturday 31 December 2005 07:54 am, Vic Ricker wrote: > when you don't > control the zone where the target A record(s) live. That's the _right_ place to use a CNAME. Unfortunately back in the days when we did everything manually a lot of us started using CNAME to avoid having to change IP#s in lots of places in our own zone files on those hopefully few occasions when we have to renumber. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"