From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 6:13:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA7F37B422; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elmo.johnturner.com (3ff8e366.dsl.flashcom.net [63.248.227.102]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA35751; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:28:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000929090943.00b07008@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:13:33 -0400 To: Jim Weeks , Andy Wolf From: John Turner Subject: RE: DNS: having domain1.com and domain1.net point to the same IP. Cc: James Wyatt , Jan Knepper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <001301c02a0d$480b5ea0$f1d761c2@andy.seicom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:24 AM 9/29/2000 -0400, Jim Weeks wrote: >The general consensus throughout the industry seems to be that C names are >evil. I've never heard this. CNAME records have a very specific use, when used that way they work great. CNAME records are for roles, not hosts. If I had to use A records for all of my DNS records, it would take hours of management per week. Once I have A records in place, I use CNAMEs, this makes changes very easy. >I have never been bitten by just using A names. True, to a point. Get hundreds of A records, and you'll get bit by not having enough time in the day to keep everything straight. - John Turner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message