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Archive for December 21st, 2023

b0rk does fun things with DNS: CNAME records at the root of the domain; technically not allowed, definitely not recommended, but somehow work for web browsing

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/21

[Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “I’ve always heard that you can’t create CNAME records at the root of the domain. But apparently you can? It seems to work fine as far as I can tell but I’m curious about the possible consequences. (yes, I registered cnameroot.com just to make this tweet) “

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