[AusNOG] Anyone else notice the click frenzy traffic

[Jeremy Visser]

On 21/11/2012 11:00, Chris Jones wrote:
> Because most CDNs use DNS-based GSLB  - via a CNAME record - and you
> can't have a CNAME for the Apex (root) of the domain.

What would be the real-world implications of actually serving a CNAME at 
the root? I know that Microsoft's DNS server lets you do it, for 
example. It "works", using the "I haven't seen what it breaks" sense of 
the word.

(One of these days we'll be resolving web servers with SRV records, but 
until then...)