From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 6:26: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4045637B422; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veager.siteplus.net (1Cust36.tnt9.chattanooga.tn.da.uu.net [63.39.120.36]) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA28395; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:25:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks To: John Turner Cc: Andy Wolf , James Wyatt , Jan Knepper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DNS: having domain1.com and domain1.net point to the same IP. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000929090943.00b07008@mail.johnturner.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, John Turner wrote: > 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. I'm not sure I understand how adding an A record is any more time consuming than adding a C record. How are they harder to keep strait? I may be doing unnecessary work. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message