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RFC 6672
Title: DNAME Redirection in the DNS
Author: S. Rose, W. Wijngaards
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: June 2012
Mailbox: scott.rose@nist.gov,
wouter@nlnetlabs.nl
Pages: 22
Characters: 45704
Obsoletes: RFC2672
Updates: RFC3363
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2672bis-dname-26.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6672.txt
The DNAME record provides redirection for a subtree of the domain
name tree in the DNS. That is, all names that end with a particular
suffix are redirected to another part of the DNS. This document
obsoletes the original specification in RFC 2672 as well as updates
the document on representing IPv6 addresses in DNS (RFC 3363).
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