Prefixless domains

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 20 17:09:52 UTC 2002


Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> In article <a78nj6$8sk at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Simon Waters  <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >CNAMEs are evil use A records.
> 
> Who declared CNAMEs to be evil?

Panzer boy in 1995 is the earliest reference I found.

DJB is less judgemental, he just suggests not using them at all,
and comments that the DNS should have been designed without
them.


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