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[Sam Wilson]

In article <daisa4$vse$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Brad Knowles
<brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

> At 2:24 AM -0400 2005-07-07, Vinny Abello wrote:
> 
> >  It doesn't matter how you setup the record pointing to the web
> >  server.
> 
>         Actually, it does matter.  The name has to resolve directly to 
> the IP address.  If you use a CNAME record instead, most browsers and 
> proxies will change the name that is being asked for to match the 
> "canonical name" that they've been given.  If you give them an IP 
> address instead, they go ahead and use the original name as provided.

Pardon?  Can you explain how the dozens of CNAME-based web sites we
have pointing to our main webserver work then?

Sam Wilson                             one of hostmaster at ed.ac.uk
Infrastructure Services Division
Computing Services, The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK