[OFF-TOPIC] Question about ClouDNS (and others') ALIAS records

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 08:00 -0400, Victoria Risk wrote:
> We have a knowledgebase article on the topic of ‘alias’ records: 
> https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01640. The article is a bit out of date,
> but still basically valid.  It is not specific to the implementation
> you mention however. 

Thanks! That was very much spot on.

It suggests a reason why someone might say an ALIAS is faster than a
CNAME; it's because the authoritative server does its own lookup. A
recursive querier does not have to get the CNAME back then do another
query. Seems like a bit of a line ball to me.

Regards, K.

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