Thus said Michael L Torrie on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:10:04 MDT: > So I guess I misunderstood what DJB said then. He's basically saying > you shouldn't have aliases to aliases, right? So nevermind about my > other post.
I don't think this is entirely what he was trying to say. If you read his other discussions of CNAMEs it becomes more clear, I believe, that what he is saying is that most people don't really understand what the true effects of using a CNAME record are on the reliability of DNS and therefore should be avoided. See the following: Read http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/killa6.html starting with *A quick overview of DNS lookups* Also read http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html#aliases (indeed this entire page is a good read). And to wrap things up a bit http://cr.yp.to/im/cname.html for a discussion about CNAMEs in email. Andy -- [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 11:25pm up 3:24, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
