Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:57:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OK to use CNAME? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951204214820.16880B-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Hello! The University told us that if we wanted to run a nameserver for ourselves (for Residence Networking), then we had to do so without using CNAMEs. Could someone shed some light on why this belief would be true, that the use of CNAMEs is frowned upon? Background: We want to use them so there is no question when a reverse-nameserve request is done, which machine they are referring to. We use static IP addressing when giving students IPs, and a name has been stock-assigned to the IP, ie if the IP is 128.223.170.164 then the name is riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley is the hall name). We were going to create a nameserver for putting on student's names so we didn't have to bug the Computing Center if we wanted to get a name added or changed. We would just add a CNAME record from the new name (dwhite.resnet.uoregon.edu) to the name in the central nameserver (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu). Thanks for any information you can provide. Doug White | Student, University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Major: Computer Science http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Eugene/Spfld BBS List Publisher
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