Hey this is kind of awesome thanks for writing this. Question about CNAME: is the CNAME yet another shortcut to the ip? In other words, if I type in the CNAME into the browser, what's the process of resolving to one of those IPs look like. Does is resemble something like this data structure?
Hi Eugene, exactly. A CNAME is basically a shortcut or an alias to an A record. A CNAME can't point directly to an IP address, it always points to another name.
Hey this is kind of awesome thanks for writing this. Question about CNAME: is the CNAME yet another shortcut to the ip? In other words, if I type in the CNAME into the browser, what's the process of resolving to one of those IPs look like. Does is resemble something like this data structure?
Hi Eugene, exactly. A CNAME is basically a shortcut or an alias to an A record. A CNAME can't point directly to an IP address, it always points to another name.
So, you can have any number of CNAMEs that point to any of your A records (or names) but not directly to an IP. A records point a name to an IP.