From: Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at domain tcd.ie)
Date: Thu 11 Apr 2002 - 11:47:58 IST
On Thursday 11 April 2002 12:37, you wrote:
> I read this somewhere, but I can't recall - what's the disadvantage of
> using a CNAME rather than another A record where you want two names for a
> host (I'm a long distance from my cricket book) ? I know an advantage is
> when you have to change IP addresses. I though the disadvantage was
> slightly more load somewhere but I can't remember where.
Basically a client has to do two lookups instead of one. They're generally a
stupid invention. See the section on Aliases here:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html
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