On 07/12/11 10:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > We disagree then. I think you should rarely give out anything but CNAMEs tied > to services unless you only run one service per address because otherwise you > can't split them apart later. It just becomes messy when your zones are managed > by different people and the targets of CNAMEs later are converted to CNAMEs > themselves. You aren't supposed to do that, but it is common enough that > everything follows them anyway. I use multiple A records pointing to the same IP for that, I'll only use a CNAME to a host if I can't control that hosts IP address and/or won't be notified if its changed. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast