<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace"><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">I'm just making this up...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">-rick</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Mark E. Jeftovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markjr@easydns.com" target="_blank">markjr@easydns.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Thanks but that page doesn't go into why the term "canonical" was<br>
adopted, as opposed to "alias" (which makes sense), or even "knickname",<br>
"doppelganger" or something like "pointer".<br>
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Somebody did send me a very comprehensive background off list which goes<br>
back to Kernighan & Ritchie's "C" book.<br>
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- mark<br>
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Roland Dobbins wrote:<br>
> On 10 Apr 2015, at 6:26, Mark E. Jeftovic wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Is it in the "accepted as genuine" sense of "included in the list of<br>
>> sacred books officially accepted as genuine" definition of "canonical"<br>
>> that led to this?<br>
><br>
> <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record</a>><br>
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