John Hinton wrote: > I've almost never use CNAMES and really am wondering about a truly > useful application. In this day of spam, it seems like less is best > with regards to subdomains, such as the example above. CNAMES also > require at least one extra loop in the lookup.. so why are they so > widely used when an A record does the more defined and more limited > task? There certainly seems to be some useful wizardry in CNAMEs, but > darned if I can think of a use for basic web hosting types of situations. > I tend to agree, although there are places where CNAMEs are necessary like classless reverse delegation (RFC 2317) or when you don't control the zone where the target A record(s) live. -- Vic Ricker http://www.ricker.us/