[Gllug] DNS CNAME usage.

[Steve Nelson]

On 3/17/06, Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have an opinion about CNAME usage and using a CNAME record
> to refer to a canonical name that is not part of the current domain and
> whether there should be problems associated with this?

In BIND, CNAME records can be nested up to 8 deep.  By this I mean
that you can have a CNAME pointing to another CNAME etc etc, but the
eighth must be the A record.

S.
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