CNAMEs and djbdns

CNAMEs and djbdns

Posted Jan 24, 2003 12:37 UTC (Fri) by anr (subscriber, #234)
In reply to: CNAMEs and djbdns by ncm
Parent article: A couple of alternative DNS servers

What's wrong with CNAMEs:

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html#aliases
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8815/fid/699

What you should do instead: use A records.

Quoting the manual:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html

" Don't use Cfqdn if there are any other records for fqdn. Don't use Cfqdn for common aliases; use +fqdn instead. Remember the wise words of Inigo Montoya: ``You keep using CNAME records. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.'' "

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