In article <alpine.deb.2.20.1810301532280.24...@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: >Are there any examples of that other than SMTP?
Not that I know of, and these days few mail systems do so. The C in CNAME tells us what its intended application was, but as we've seen from time to time, here on the Internet what you expect and what you get are not necessarily the same. R's, John PS: In fairness, I'm not surprised that in 1987 nobody expected something like the web that would become so popular that there wouldn't be enough IP addresses to give each site its own IP. I don't know whether the other use, to cross admin boundaries, would have been predictable then. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
