Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I think the introduction should discuss why it is not possible to push the
> CNAME to the parent zone, replacing the entire zone with an alias.

You can't replace an entire zone with a CNAME if it has subdomains. ANAME
records are not just for zone apexes. There are lots of other cases where
address records need a different alias target from MX records, or NAPTR
records, etc.

Tony.
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