Definitions for "CNAME"
Related Terms:
Cname record, Ptr record, Canonical name, Primary server, Authoritative, Nslookup, Secondary server, Name servers, Root servers, Root server, Name server, Lame delegation, Domain name servers, Host name, Name resolution, Reverse lookup, Glue record, Dns lookup, Domain name server, Alias name, Dns, Hostname, Zone, Addon domain, Dns - domain name system, Ddns, Domain name service, Domain name system, Register, Reverse dns, Domain name parking, A record, Domain name registration, Dns server, Internet domain name, Fully qualified domain name, Domain registry, Parking, Virtual domain, Domain alias, Nameserver, Registry, Reverse dns lookup, Domain parking, Nic handle, Domain names, Dnr, Forwarder, Rdn, Label
records are domain name aliases. The most common use is to have a web-server point one url to another. For example "bestdatasource.com" to " www.bestdatasource.com". It could also be used to point "cutternetworks.com" to " www.bestdatasource.com".
a domain alias entry in the DNS record that points a hostname to another hostname
a method of DNS aliasing
an alias, so www
a special type of DNS record used to create an alias from one hostname to another
A DNS record that points a domain or hostname to another hostname rather than a numeric IP address.
A CNAME record is a domain alias, and points a host name to another host name. To offer http://alias.yourdomain.com (e.g. http://webmail.yourdomain.com), you need to verify with your host that they can create and maintain a CNAME setting.
A DNS record type that specifies an alias for another sub-domain.
For Active Directory, an object's distinguished name presented with the root first and without the LDAP attribute tags (such as: CN= or DC=). The segments of the name are delimited with forward slashes (/). For example,CN=MyDocuments,OU=MyOU,DC=Microsoft,DC=Com is presented as microsoft.com/MyOU/MyDocuments in canonical form. For DNS, a type of resource record. See also distinguished name; Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP); canonical name (CNAME) resource record.
CNAMES are similar to A records, with the exception that instead of pointing to an IP Address, they point to another record, or machine name. On our system, only CNAMES which point to machine names defined within your zone file, this means as part of your domain, are permitted.
Canonical Name (alternative name for a host) in Domain Name Service.
Canonical name, an alias pointing to the true name of the host. Requires its right hand side to have an record.
A Canonical NAME record makes one domain name an alias of another.
anonical Name Often used to define an alias for a HOST or A record in DNS, not valid for an MX record.
A common abbreviation for canonical name.
Short for canonical name, a CNAME record is an entry in the DNS database (in the form of an IP address) that identifies the true host name of a computer that its aliases are associated with. This allows you to resolve more than one domain name to the same IP address.
(Context: DNS) Short for a Canonical Name Record. A CNAME record creates an alias for a Canonical hostname. Men&Mice
A CNAME record maps an address to its canonical name. The name server handles CNAME records in a different manner than aliases are handled in the host table. When a name server looks up a name and finds a CNAME record, it replaces the name with the canonical name and looks up the new name.
(Canonical Name) A Canonical Name is something of a fiction because many servers have more then one equally valid name. Basically, any domain name that has an A record.