Simple question about zone and CNAME

[Sam Wilson]

In article <mailman.46.1365189018.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Chris Thompson <cet1 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Apr 5 2013, John Wobus wrote:
> 
> >> DNAME? <runs away, giggling…>
> >
> >Or SRV records.  Surely browsers are adding support
> >in the next day or two?
> 
> Come on, April 1 has been over for too long for this.
> 
> Incidentally, we have just been asked for an A record for cam.ac.uk to
> duplicate www.cam.ac.uk because, and I quote, "all the publicity material
> sent out by the nominator [for an award for the web site] gave the URL
> as http://cam.ac.uk/ and this has been retweeted around".

We're currently prevaricating over putting in an A record for ed.ac.uk.  
Whilst my colleagues who manage active directory assure me that having 
an A record there - pointing at the content-managed web server that has 
difficulty handling arbitrary URLs - won't break anything I'm not going 
to try it except under very controlled conditions and after I've spoken 
to a lot of other people who do it already.

Sam

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