At 12:09 PM 7/27/2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Trent W. Buck wrote:
You can "alias" www.example.net to chartreuse.example.net -- that is called a CNAME DNS RR. IIRC you can only CNAME within a domain, e.g. you can alias www.example.net to chartreuse.example.net, but not to google.com or www.chartreuse.example.net.
Er, sorry, I appear to be smoking crack. The WP page explicitly contradicts me:
The canonical name that a CNAME record points to can be anywhere in the DNS, whether local or on a remote server in a different DNS zone.
I was going to say! I've set CNAME records to all sorts of places, for example, http://ref9550.vkradio.com points to a location in Google Sites (it's a page of mine, in case you're wondering). However, you can't point an MX record to a CNAME, only an A (and/or AAAA for IPv6 capable MXs). 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com