In article <44ae341f-0424-14c7-2834-656991d40...@bellis.me.uk> you write: >> Many TLD registries simply don't permit CNAMEs instead of delegations >> for their customer domains. >> >> The only one I've heard of that does is .de > >My real point being that the parent / child relationship can have policy >rules in place that prevent things that are technically completely possible.
True, but the most common broken CNAME I see is something like this: example.com MX 0 mail.example.com example.com CNAME www.example.com www.example.com A 1.2.3.4 I agree that if we go ahead with this document, a paragraph pointing to the ways that CNAMEs don't solve the problem would be helpful. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
