[CrackMonkey] Instruments of inquisition, or... !Help, I'm being tried in ignorance (again)

Paul J Collins sneakums at eircom.net
Sat Sep 16 16:54:01 PDT 2000


>>>>> "Monkey" == Monkey Master <monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org> writes:

    Monkey> begin  George J.P. Perry quotation:

    >> Representatives of <register.com> assure me that they'd
    >> established "c-name" & "a-record" (which they call "ip-record")
    Monkey> "IP record" is probably more modern and appropriate, since
    Monkey> the A stood for ARPAnet. [...]

Doesn't A stand for address, versus CNAME for canonical name and PTR
for pointer?

The IN (Internet) part indicates ARPAnet or an ARPAnet-style network.

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