On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:35:58AM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > CNAME's are kind of funny aren't they. Most of us probably think of the > term (colloquially), "Canonical Name," as being exactly the reverse of > what a CNAME is. At least to me.
I think we just mix things up when we talk about it. Suppose we have the following: athena IN A 192.168.1.1 www IN CNAME athena We imprecisely say stuff like "www is a CNAME for athena." If we think about the two lines together, though, we will say "192.168.1.1 is the address for athena, and athena is the CNAME for www." So www is the alias, and athena is the canonical name. If we were more careful, we probably wouldn't get confused. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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