[dns-operations] Why are cnames called "canonical" names?

[Rick Wesson]

I believe canonical was referring to the right hand side (RRData) where
alias would refer to the left hand side of the rrdata or the dname.

I'm just making this up...

-rick


On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Mark E. Jeftovic <markjr at easydns.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks but that page doesn't go into why the term "canonical" was
> adopted, as opposed to "alias" (which makes sense), or even "knickname",
> "doppelganger" or something like "pointer".
>
> Somebody did send me a very comprehensive background off list which goes
> back to Kernighan & Ritchie's "C" book.
>
> - mark
>
>
> Roland Dobbins wrote:
> > On 10 Apr 2015, at 6:26, Mark E. Jeftovic wrote:
> >
> >> Is it in the "accepted as genuine" sense of "included in the list of
> >> sacred books officially accepted as genuine" definition of "canonical"
> >> that led to this?
> >
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record>
> >
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