[dns-wg] Question about use of cname in Google's services

2016-06-03 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hello everyone Someone asked me question on why google uses cname for their services anyways? I mean I get it that for Google Apps customers it makes sense to have mail.domain.com pointed to a cname rather then A record to a host which may die. But why for their own services? Like e.g "mail.go

Re: [dns-wg] Question about use of cname in Google's services

2016-06-03 Thread Shane Kerr
Anurag, At 2016-06-04 02:52:46 +0530 Anurag Bhatia wrote: > Someone asked me question on why google uses cname for their services > anyways? I mean I get it that for Google Apps customers it makes sense to > have mail.domain.com pointed to a cname rather then A record to a host > which may die.