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sreynolds

CNAME, why is this still a thing?

Doesn't think come from the bad old days where you accepted plaint text email on port 25 and assumed that sender would never lie about their address? Is there really a use for them given that you can update A and AAAA records automagially? And while I am whining why not take the axe to the PTR records. Nobody cares what IP they connect to, as machines and address no longer have any real meaning due to network mangling and manipulation.

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