From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 12:49:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from retribution.net (retribution.net [207.96.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD7A37B8EF for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:49:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjoseff@hellenco.com) Received: from retribution.net (mjoseff@retribution.net [207.96.1.17]) by retribution.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA21281; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:52:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:52:23 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Joseff X-Sender: mjoseff@retribution.net To: Ken Bolingbroke Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: CNAME vs A records (clarification) In-Reply-To: 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 Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: }Normally, you should only have a single A record for any specific IP }address and a correponding PTR record that reverses the A's IP and }hostname. CNAMEs are aliases for 'extra' hostnames on the same IP }address. Sweet. This clarifies things. -- Matthew Joseff | #!/bin/sh www.hellenco.com | echo "What's your username again?" mjoseff@hellenco.com | read LUSER | rm -rf /home/$LUSER To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message