CNAME records in place of A records

Fri Nov 6 10:34:51 UTC 2020

Interesting. We got a few requests at the same time which is what made we
wonder. I wanted to make sure that there wasn't something I was missing.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 5:25 AM Ray Orsini <ray at oit.co> wrote:

> It's not a security thing. We do this with the the resellers who white
> label our VOIP. CNAMEs allow us to be flexible with our own hosts and
> infrastructure without having all of our resellers change DNS records.
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> *Subject:* CNAME records in place of A records
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> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this is a bit OT. Recently several different vendors (in
> completely different fields) where they white label for us asked us to
> remove A records that we have going to them and replace them with CNAME
> records. Is there anything *going around* in the security aranea  that has
> caused this?
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