DNS wizard

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



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.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx



[Index of Archives]     [CentOS]     [CentOS Announce]     [CentOS Development]     [CentOS ARM Devel]     [CentOS Docs]     [CentOS Virtualization]     [Carrier Grade Linux]     [Linux Media]     [Asterisk]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Xorg]     [Linux USB]
  Powered by Linux