On Saturday 31 December 2005 07:54 am, Vic Ricker wrote:
when you don't control the zone where the target A record(s) live.
That's the _right_ place to use a CNAME. Unfortunately back in the days when we did everything manually a lot of us started using CNAME to avoid having to change IP#s in lots of places in our own zone files on those hopefully few occasions when we have to renumber.
Jeff