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CNAME Flattening - CNAME's at a domain's root

chris

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I thought this was interesting to anyone using CloudFlare and/or into DNS, or those who are fans of dropping the www:

It's called CNAME Flattening and it's a bit geeky, but very useful and important if you’re using cloud-based services and you hate having a “www” subdomain. The gist is: you can now safely use a CNAME record, as opposed to an A record that points to a fixed IP address, as your root record in CloudFlare DNS without triggering a number of edge case error conditions because you’re violating the DNS spec.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root

Cheers,
Chris
 

nt81

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handy for the new gTLDs

so you don't end up with

www.blah.photogrpahy

p.s cloudfare sucks
 

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