Using CNAME Records

We talked about CNAME resource records in Chapter 4. We didn’t tell you everything about CNAME records, though; we saved that for this chapter. When you set up your first name servers, you didn’t care about the subtle nuances of the magical CNAME record. Maybe you didn’t realize there was more to it than we explained; maybe you didn’t care. Some of this trivia is interesting; some is arcane. We’ll let you decide which is which.

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