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Re: [cobalt-users] CNAME
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] CNAME
- From: shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Jun 30 08:07:01 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Robbert Hamburg wrote:
> Can somebody explain me what a CNAME option is in the DNS server of a cobalt
> raq3 ??
>
> What does it do and what can you do with it ??
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Robbert
It points a hostname to another hostname, instead of an IP address (a
direct computer).
What you can do with it? For instance, make a hostname inside your domain
to point to an external webserver, which has it's IP changed and it's
hostname stay intact...
hopefully I made it clear...
- shimi.