Paul Howarth: >> They're useful as long as you know what you're doing :-) >> Too bad too many people don't :-( Derek Martin: > I don't really agree; they're totally redundant. You're better off > just using an A record. That will always behave intuitively and > completely avoids all the stupid problems associated with CNAMEs. I was under the impression that CNAMEs were supposed to act as some sort of redirecting instruction (this is the name that you should be using, it's the one we consider canonical), so stop using the other domain name you original tried to use. Though nothing appears to work that way. e.g. For DNS records like this print A 192.168.1.10 printer CNAME print printers CNAME print printing CNAME print Where you're wanting people to use "print" (+ domain name) as the address for your printer, but somewhere along the line people have been using other addresses you'd like them to no-longer use, but don't want to block from being used. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
