DNS wizard

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:32, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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.

But there is no down side to a CNAME as long as you remember
that it really is an alias for the target name and thus inherits
any other data (like MX records) associated with it.

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