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Related, CNAME is used casually in the opposite sense to it's expansion, "canonical name". Also, in a hundred years there'll be people making up retronyms for
by emmelaich 5y ago
Related, CNAME is used casually in the opposite sense to it's expansion, "canonical name".
Also, in a hundred years there'll be people making up retronyms for .arpa.
"Uhm maybe it stands for *address reverse protocol association*?"
- woodruffw 5y ago> Also, in a hundred years there'll be people making up retronyms for .arpa. We've already got one! It's been backronymed as "Address and Routing Parameter Area" by IANA[1]. [1]: https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa