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Can anyone explain the difference between an ALIAS and a DNAME record?
by MatthewWilkes 13y ago
Can anyone explain the difference between an ALIAS and a DNAME record?
- jlgaddis 13y ago> DNAME record? You mean a CNAME? belorn gave a pretty good explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7023412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7023412
- dec0dedab0de 13y agoalias returns an IP, CNAME returns a name.
- donavanm 13y agoA CNAME and an ALIAS both reference a specific label/name. A DNAME applies to a tree, and subcomponents. Wikipedia has a decent example of DNAME usage.