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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Forties, Cromarty: West 5 to 7, perhaps gale 8 later. Moderate or rough. Rain then showers. Good occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop