On Aug 22 2008, Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote: >I was reading "Linux Administration Handbook" to learn about BIND 9. It >has a section on configuring BIND 9 for IP addresses that uses a CIDR >netmask of "/26". The book called it "CNAME hack". > >http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GB_O89fnz_sC&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=bind+cname+hack+byte+boundary&source=web&ots=wHXdK1DTkn&sig=ofbOawLJZkCiFGPSnDLItMKfroU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result > >IS there an official name for this trick?
It's usually referred to by some pointer to RFC 2317, e.g. "classless reverse delegation in the style of RFC 2317". I am not aware that anything snappier than that has become standard. "CNAME hack" is *very* ambiguous, apart from being unnecessarily pejorative. There's nothing BIND-specific about it, of course. -- Chris Thompson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
