On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:32, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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.
But there is no down side to a CNAME as long as you remember
that it really is an alias for the target name and thus inherits
any other data (like MX records) associated with it.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com